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It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

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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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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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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
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The soil is the gift of God to the living.
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An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
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That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
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God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.
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While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
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Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
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The government you elect is the government you deserve.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
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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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Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.
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The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
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