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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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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
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Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.
Thomas Jefferson
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
When the heart is right, the feet are swift.
Thomas Jefferson
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
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The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
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War is not the best engine for us to resort to nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
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It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
Thomas Jefferson
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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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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Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
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