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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 an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force within its limits.
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Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
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A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
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All authority belongs to the people.
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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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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The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.
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A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.
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The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.
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The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
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What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.
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Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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