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Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
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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Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
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In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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As government grows, freedom recedes.
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What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
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I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
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Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
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Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
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France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.
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