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“Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.”

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

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Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

This book compiles a selection of Thomas Jefferson's writings that focus on his perspectives on war and revolutionary movements. The content includes his personal reflections, political arguments, and historical analyses related to these themes. more

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, a distinguished politician, philosopher, architect, and scientist. He was born on April 13, 1743, and died on July 4, 1826. Jefferson advocated for democracy and freedom in politics and was one of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence. His political ideas had a profound impact on the founding and development of the United States. more

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Book:Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

“Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

“The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.”

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.”

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson