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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:08:25 +0000

And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus [through slavery] to trample on the rights of the other…

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:01:34 +0000

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other…

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:54:04 +0000

From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:50:09 +0000

Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:42:54 +0000

Whenever you are to do a thing….ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:40:11 +0000

And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:33:18 +0000

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:28:16 +0000

[S]hould things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:26:09 +0000

[T]he rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:35:08 +0000

God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:32:19 +0000

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever…

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:33:10 +0000

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:20:16 +0000

I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:15:03 +0000

I concur with the author in considering the moral precepts of Jesus as more pure, correct, and sublime than those of ancient philosophers.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:10:26 +0000

We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:07:41 +0000

The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain.

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Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:04:32 +0000

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.