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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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
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A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
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Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
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