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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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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Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.
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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
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