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Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies
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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[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.
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No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
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With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
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...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
Thomas Jefferson
I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.
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Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
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Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
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A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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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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The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
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Health is the requisite after morality
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