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Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.
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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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
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The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
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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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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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War is not the best engine for us to resort to nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.
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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].
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A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.
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I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
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This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.
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I have sworn upon the altar of god.
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Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.
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No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
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No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
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Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.
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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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