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Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

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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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Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.
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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
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If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
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Ministers and merchants love nobody.
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I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
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Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
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[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.
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The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
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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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Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
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Dependence leads to subservience.
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Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.
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Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
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Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
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There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
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I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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