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A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
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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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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It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
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In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
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One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.
Thomas Jefferson
Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
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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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Men fight for freedom then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
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I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
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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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The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
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Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Action will delineate and define you.
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