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Thomas Jefferson

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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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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.


— Thomas Jefferson


#art

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.


— Thomas Jefferson


#tea #change

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.


— Thomas Jefferson


#age

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.


— Thomas Jefferson


#religion #science #religion

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.


— Thomas Jefferson


#politics #society #freedom

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.


— Thomas Jefferson


#diet

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.


— Thomas Jefferson


#life

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance


— Thomas Jefferson


#democracy #logic #reason #art

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.


— 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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