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The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
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 fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
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Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
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The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
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