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An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
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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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
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The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
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Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
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Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.
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Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.
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I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.
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No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.
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