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Thomas Jefferson föddes den 21 augustus 1762 och dog den 4 juli 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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 Blest is the Nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say

 Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

 Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

 But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

 But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine

 But I have ever thought religion a concern purely between our God and our consciences, for which we were accountable to him, and not to the priests. I never told my own religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives, and by this test, my dear Madam, I have been satisfied yours must be an excellent one, to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read. By the same test the world must judge me.

 But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror

 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? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?

 Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

 Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man

 Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law

 Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

 Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

 Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government

 Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government


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