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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
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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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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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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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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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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Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
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I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.
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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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Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
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But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?
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