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Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
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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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.
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By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
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An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
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