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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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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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Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.
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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
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The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
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No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.
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It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
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It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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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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life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system
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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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Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
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I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
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