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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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Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
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The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
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The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
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The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
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We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.
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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
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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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The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
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Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.
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I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
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We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
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