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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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The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
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Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.
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The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
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The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
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The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.
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The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
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There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
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I like to see the people awake and alert.
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Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
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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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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
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One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
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Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
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It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
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All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.
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