American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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I cannot live without books.
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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