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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
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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Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will collections of men by that of their majority for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
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There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
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Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.
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That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
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Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
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