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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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It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
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Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
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Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
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That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
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[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
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[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.
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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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Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.
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It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed what they were fond of before has become indifferent they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.
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I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
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The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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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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The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
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Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
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