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The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

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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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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
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I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
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Those are governed best who are governed least.
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I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
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