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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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A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.
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The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
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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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Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.
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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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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
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The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
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I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.
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