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Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
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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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
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So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.
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[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.
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Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.
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Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.
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No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
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When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
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A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.
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The dead should not rule the living
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
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What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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