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Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
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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The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
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The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.
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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
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