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Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
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We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
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We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them
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Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.
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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
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The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
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If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.
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If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
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Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
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Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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