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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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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
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I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
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If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.
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An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
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Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.
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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
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The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
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On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The soil is the gift of God to the living.
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Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
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