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Let those flatter who fear it is not an American art .
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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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
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Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
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Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
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While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.
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I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both
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The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
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In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
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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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From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.
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I like to see the people awake and alert.
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