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Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.
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 wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
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Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.
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We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
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The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.
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We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
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[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
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In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
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No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.
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Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
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The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
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