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Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
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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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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