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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.

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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 opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
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I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid and I find myself much the happier.
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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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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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I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
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In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
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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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Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested experiments seem contradictory their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.
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The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
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The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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As government grows, freedom recedes.
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