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The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
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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Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
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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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France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.
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A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
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The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
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The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
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[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!
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His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.
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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
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The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
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the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
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In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
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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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I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things but they would have been done by others some of them, perhaps, a little better.
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