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Thomas Jefferson

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.


— 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.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.


— Thomas Jefferson


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


— Thomas Jefferson


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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.


— 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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