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I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
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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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
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Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will collections of men by that of their majority for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.
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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
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The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
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We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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