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One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
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 difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
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[My] pillar of support through life.... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.
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The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
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All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.
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Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
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Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
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