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All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.
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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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Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
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Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.
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Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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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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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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The sun - my almighty physician.
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