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Thomas Jefferson

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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.


— Thomas Jefferson


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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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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.


— 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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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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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.


— 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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