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[But the Jesuit in charge of the California Province described Chevedden as having had] a paranoid psychotic break. ... He was not intending to take his life.


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THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...
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