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I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.
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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Don't spend your money till you have it.
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
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Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
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I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.
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Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
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It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
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