The dead should not rule the living

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The dead should not rule the living

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government nor under its jurisdiction. –

-- Thomas Jefferson

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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