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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
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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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
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A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean
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Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.
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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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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
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It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
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We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
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If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
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