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The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
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 can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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Men fight for freedom then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
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[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
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Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.
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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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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 chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
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