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I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

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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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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
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Those are governed best who are governed least.
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The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.
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Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
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Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.
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I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
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The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.
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No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
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A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
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