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Thomas Jefferson

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The dead should not rule the living


— Thomas Jefferson


#inspirational #politics #inspirational

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.


— Thomas Jefferson


#faith #god #honor #independence #loyalty

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.


— Thomas Jefferson


#religion #religion

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.


— Thomas Jefferson


#religion #art

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.


— Thomas Jefferson


#justice #equality

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.


— Thomas Jefferson


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never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased


— Thomas Jefferson


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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.


— Thomas Jefferson


#religious-freedom #freedom

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.


— 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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