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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 authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
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The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
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Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
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I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
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The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision
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Delay is preferable to error.
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Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
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I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the earth.
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We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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