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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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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.
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To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
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This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.
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The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.
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Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
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You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
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The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
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