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No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
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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no people can be both ignorant and free.
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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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