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Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

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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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
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The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.
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Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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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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No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.
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The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
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Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.
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[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.
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No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
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