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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect 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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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
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A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
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No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.
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