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We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
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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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war but of its abolition I despair.
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Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
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We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
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The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
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We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.
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Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
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A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
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Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
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