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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 will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
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As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.
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An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.
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In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.
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The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
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The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
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An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
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The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
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The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
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The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.
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besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
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I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
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I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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