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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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besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
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Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
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A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
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Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.
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The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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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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