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Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

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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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Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.
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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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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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Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
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The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.
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If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
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The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.
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By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
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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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In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.
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And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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