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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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Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
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Everything yields to diligence.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.
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Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
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The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
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Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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