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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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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war but of its abolition I despair.
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No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.
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I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
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Public offices were not made for private convenience.
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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
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No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.
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Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.
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Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
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I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
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I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
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