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«I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.»
«The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Talent,
Words
| Keywords:
most-valuable, talents
«The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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capricious, Christian, cruel, terrific, The Christian, unjust, vindictive
«A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither»
«Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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dawn, enlighten, oppressions, spirits, tyranny, vanish
«A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Democracy
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democracy, fifty, Fifty one, forty-nine, forty, mob, mobs, Mob rule, nine, Nothing More, one percent, percent, take away
«For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...»
«When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.»
«Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Questioning
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approve, approving, blindfold, blindfolded, boldness, existence, existence of God, homage, question, the existence of God, with boldness
«The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Press
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enlightening, improving, instrument, press, rational, the press
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