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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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An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.
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If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
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A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.
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The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
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A mind always employed is always happy.
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I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.
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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 could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
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I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
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The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
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The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.
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In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
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Health is worth more than learning.
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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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