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While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
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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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
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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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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
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No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
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I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.
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Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
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If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
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Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
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It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
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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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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
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All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.
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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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