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I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

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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 left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.
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If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
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In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
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Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.
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To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
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And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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