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The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
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 have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.
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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
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I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
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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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An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
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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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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
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The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
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Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
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An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
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Health is worth more than learning.
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In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
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