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What i value more than all things, good humor.

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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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Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
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I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.
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I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.
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I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
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If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
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Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
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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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Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
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We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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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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Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
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Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
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