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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
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Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
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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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