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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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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Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested experiments seem contradictory their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.
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If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
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I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have seen what they are. There is scarcely an evil known in these countries, which may not be traced to their king, as its source, nor a good, which is not derived from the small fibres of republicanism existing among them.
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All authority belongs to the people.
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Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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