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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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The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
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The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.
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[My] pillar of support through life.... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.
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An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.
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My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
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The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
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I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.
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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.
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Let those flatter who fear it is not an American art .
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