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"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."
Thomas JeffersonThe Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territo — Thomas Jefferson
"The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it."
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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who served as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801 and as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. He was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and natural rights, and produced formative documents and decisions at the state,
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"A free people [claim] their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
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"History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny."
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"Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters (1959)"
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"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. 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."
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"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
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