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One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against 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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Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin
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Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
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France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.
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[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
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Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
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In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.
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It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
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To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.
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The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
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It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
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