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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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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My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
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Dependence leads to subservience.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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The Bible makes the best people in the world.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.
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I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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