Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Past
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I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
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History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
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The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
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The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.
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The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.
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