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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
3rd president of US [more author details]

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791
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That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Waring and others, March 23, 1801
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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807
Delay is preferable to error.: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to George Washington, May 16, 1792
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No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
Health is worth more than learning.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.: Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Mr. Dumas, March 24, 1793
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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.: Thomas Jefferson, Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.: Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.: Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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