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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
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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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid and I find myself much the happier.
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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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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
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