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One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.
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The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
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The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
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The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
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The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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