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I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.
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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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
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