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It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
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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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.
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Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.
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It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.
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We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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