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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
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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music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
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