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His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.

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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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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
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When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
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Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.
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Our bills shall not be killed.
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
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music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
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Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
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Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
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Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
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Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.
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Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
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An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
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Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.
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If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
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I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
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