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Thomas Jefferson

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.


— Thomas Jefferson


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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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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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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.


— 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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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.


— Thomas Jefferson


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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.


— Thomas Jefferson


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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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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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