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No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.
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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Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
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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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One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
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Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.
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I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.
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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
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Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
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Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.
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I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
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The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
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