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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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 concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
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The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
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