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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

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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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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.
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The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.
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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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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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