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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.
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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
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Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
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