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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Thomas Jefferson's Birthday [1]

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Date: 2023-04-13  

Happy 280th, Tom! Let’s look at some of your more memorable quotes.

"Everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person and using it at his own will ... This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because it is necessary for his own sustenance."

“I cannot live without books.” (Jefferson amassed three libraries in his life. One was burned with his house, one he donated to start the Library of Congress, and then he had a few thousand volumes again collected.)

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. 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.”

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

[Yes, I know he didn’t always live up to his own ideals. Do any of us? A very complicated but great and accomplished man.]

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