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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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When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.
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While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
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Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
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I have sworn upon the altar of god.
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the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
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Action will delineate and define you.
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By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.
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The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.
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Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
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A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
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