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Thomas Jefferson

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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.


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


— Thomas Jefferson


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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.


— Thomas Jefferson


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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.


— 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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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.


— Thomas Jefferson


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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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Removing or preventing corrupting dependence would enable men to be equal in practice. At age 16 Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg and first met the law professor George Wythe who became his influential mentor. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions which if not covered will end in their destruction which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.

Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 (April 2 1743 O. Elected Vice President in 1796 when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts. In 1803 President Jefferson initiated a process of Indian tribal removal and relocation to the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi River in order to open lands for eventual American settlers.

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