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Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.
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Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.
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The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
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What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
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Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
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Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
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For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
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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?
Thomas Jefferson
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
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The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
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