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How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.
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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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Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.
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One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
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The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
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Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.
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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.
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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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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
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Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
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In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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