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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
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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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us we shall destroy them all.
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The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
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