Thomas Jefferson

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• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.

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• I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

  In: John F. Nash Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation,14 February 2008, p. 11.

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.

  Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Query XVIII (Richmond, 1853), pp. 174–175

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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