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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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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
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Government governed least is government governed best.
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While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.
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An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian Mathematics Natural philosophy Natural History Civil History Ethics.
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If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
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If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
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Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
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I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
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