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[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]From a man who at 32 wrote The Declaration of Independence[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]Thomas Jefferson Quotes [/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

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[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. [COLOR=#003399][COLOR=#003399]Thomas Jefferson[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

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[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. [COLOR=#003399][COLOR=#003399]Thomas Jefferson[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. [COLOR=#003399][COLOR=#003399]Thomas Jefferson[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. [COLOR=#003399][COLOR=#003399]Thomas Jefferson[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.. [COLOR=#003399][COLOR=#003399]Thomas Jefferson[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. [COLOR=#003399][COLOR=#003399]Thomas Jefferson[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. [COLOR=#003399][COLOR=#003399]Thomas Jefferson[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]Very Interesting Quote [/COLOR][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][COLOR=black]In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=red][COLOR=red]1802[/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=red][COLOR=red]:[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=black][COLOR=black][COLOR=#0000ff]'I believe that[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000]banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff] If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

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[COLOR=#ffffff]Education[/COLOR]
"I have indeed two great measures at heart,
without which no republic can maintain itself in strength:
1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge
for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom.
2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all
the children of each will be within reach of a
central school in it."
Thomas Jefferson
Source: in a letter to John Tyler, 1810.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition 12:393

"Is it a right or a duty in society to take care of their
infant members in opposition to the will of the parent?
How far does this right and duty extend? --to guard the
life of the infant, his property, his instruction,
his morals? The Roman father was supreme in all these:
we draw a line, but where? --public sentiment does not
seem to have traced it precisely... It is better to
tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let
his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings
and ideas by the forcible asportation and education of
the infant against the will of the father... What is
proposed... is to remove the objection of expense,
by offering education gratis, and to strengthen parental
excitement by the disfranchisement of his child while
uneducated. Society has certainly a right to disavow him
whom they offer, and are permitted to qualify for the
duties of a citizen. If we do not force instruction,
let us at least strengthen the motives to receive it
when offered."
Thomas Jefferson
Source: Note to Elementary School Act, 1817

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson

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"When the people fear the government, that is Tyranny. When the government fear the people, that is Liberty!"
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[COLOR=navy][COLOR=navy]Thomas Jefferson said in[/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=red][COLOR=red] 1802[/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=red][COLOR=red]:[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=navy][COLOR=navy]'[/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered....'[/COLOR][/COLOR]

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I graduated from what is today still called "Mr. Jefferson's University." The motto of the institution was written by him:

"This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

However, when any graduate thinks about about what they "got" from the place, they remember the poem called "The Honor Men" because (back then... I was class of '69) we had an honor code that worked well, was self enforced, and served us as a model for later life:

The Honor Men

The University of Virginia writes her highest degree on the souls of her sons [and daughters]. The parchment page of scholarship -- the colored ribbon of society -- the jeweled emblem of a fraternity -- the orange symbol of athletic prowess -- all these a year hence, will be at the best mementos of happy hours -- like the withered flower a woman presses between the pages of a book for sentiments sake.

But...If you live a long, long time and hold honesty of conscience above honesty of purse; and turn aside without ostentation to aid the weak; and treasure ideals more than raw ambition; and track no man to his undeserved hurt. And pursue no [person] to [their] tears; and love the beauty of noble music and mist – veiled mountains and blossoming valleys and great monuments – if you live a long time and keeping the faith in all the things hour by hour, still see that the sun gilds your path with real gold and that the moon floats in dream silver:

Then...Remember the purple shadows of the lawn, the majesty of the colonnades, and the dream of your youth, you may say in reverence thankfulness:

I have worn the honors of Honor. I graduated from Virginia"

James Hay, Jr. '03