Thomas Jefferson

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Birthdate September 10, 1856

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Location Shadwell, Virginia

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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

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A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.

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To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propatation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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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?

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Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

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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.

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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

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