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Thomas Jefferson

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.


— Thomas Jefferson


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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.


— 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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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.


— 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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