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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson
There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
Take things always by their smooth handle.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
They [preachers] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated Reformer of human errors.
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That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
Our liberty depends upon the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot.
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose.
Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.
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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.