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Thomas Jefferson

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it


— Thomas Jefferson


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The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.


— Thomas Jefferson


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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.


— Thomas Jefferson


#inspirational #religion #inspirational

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.


— Thomas Jefferson


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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.


— Thomas Jefferson


#hard-work #inspirational #time #inspirational

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.


— Thomas Jefferson


#religion #religion

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.


— Thomas Jefferson


#religious-freedom #tolerance #unity #freedom






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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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