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If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.
Thomas Jefferson
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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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Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.
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Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.
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You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.
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I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.
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To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
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The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
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I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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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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If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
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What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?
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Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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