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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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The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
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Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
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The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.
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The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.
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If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
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In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
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If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
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I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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