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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
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To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
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Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
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Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
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We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
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I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
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The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
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No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
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We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
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