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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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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We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
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