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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
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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Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
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I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.
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It is not to the moderation and justice of others we are to trust for fair and equal access to market with out productions, or for our due share in the transportation of them but to our own means of independence, and the firm will to use them.
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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.
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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
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Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.
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Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.
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