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Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
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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And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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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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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
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Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.
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Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
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The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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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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I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.
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Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
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