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Ministers and merchants love nobody.
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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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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I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
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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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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.
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Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.
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God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.
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The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
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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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Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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One generation cannot bind another.
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
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Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
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The sun - my almighty physician.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
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