American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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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.
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
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