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Thomas Jefferson

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Every Generation Needs a New Revolution


— Thomas Jefferson


#inspirational

The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements.


— Thomas Jefferson


#journalism #advertising

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.


— Thomas Jefferson


#liberty

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?


— Thomas Jefferson


#life

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.


— Thomas Jefferson


#religion

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.


— Thomas Jefferson


#tourism #beauty

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!


— Thomas Jefferson


#founding-fathers #freedom #liberty #thomas-jefferson #freedom

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.


— Thomas Jefferson


#discipline

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.


— Thomas Jefferson


#philosophy #education

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none


— Thomas Jefferson


#foreign-policy #friendship #honesty #nations #peace






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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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