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Thomas Jefferson

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.


— Thomas Jefferson


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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.


— Thomas Jefferson


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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.


— Thomas Jefferson


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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.


— Thomas Jefferson


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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.


— 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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