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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. -Thomas Jefferson

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Jefferson Love this stunning photo of the Jefferson Memorial!

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The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson

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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. - Thomas Jefferson

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President 1801 - 1809 (Photo 21)

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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. ... Read More

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Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President 1801 - 1809 (Photo 18)

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Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President 1801 - 1809 (Photo 23)

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. - Thomas Jefferson

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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. - Thomas Jefferson

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. - Thomas Jefferson

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others. - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President 1801 - 1809 (Photo 22)

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When the people fear the government there is tyranny; When the government fears the people there is liberty.~ Thomas Jefferson

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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President 1801 - 1809 (Photo 24)

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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. - Thomas Jefferson

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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. - Thomas Jefferson

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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. - Thomas Jefferson

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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. - Thomas Jefferson

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President 1801 - 1809 (Photo 26)

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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. - Thomas Jefferson

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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. - Thomas Jefferson

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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. - Thomas Jefferson

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. - Thomas Jefferson

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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. - Thomas Jefferson

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Delay is preferable to error. - Thomas Jefferson

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson

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He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson

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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. - Thomas Jefferson

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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. - Thomas Jefferson

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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President 1801 - 1809 (Photo 31)

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. - Thomas Jefferson

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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. - Thomas Jefferson

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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. - Thomas Jefferson

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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. - Thomas Jefferson

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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. - John F. Kennedy

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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. - Thomas Jefferson

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their o... Read More

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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. - Thomas Jefferson

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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas ... Read More

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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. - Thomas Jefferson

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. - Thomas Jefferson

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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. - Thomas Jefferson

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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. - Thomas Jefferson

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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. - Thomas Jefferson

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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States was born on April 13, 1743.

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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. - Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States, took office as America's first secretary of state on March 22, 1790.

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

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My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President 1801 - 1809 (Photo 19)

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