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The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.
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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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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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 furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
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To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.
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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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Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
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Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.
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It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
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That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
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The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
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