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Thomas Jefferson

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.


— Thomas Jefferson


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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.


— 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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.


— Thomas Jefferson


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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.


— Thomas Jefferson


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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.


— 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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