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Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.
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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On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.
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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
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Men fight for freedom then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.
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The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
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Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.
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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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Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
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It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
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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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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
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But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.
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