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Thomas Jefferson(1743 – 1826) The principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia. He was a political philosopher, editor of Jefferson's Bible, and one of the most influential founders of the United States. A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. |