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If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

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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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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
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I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.
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If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
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Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.
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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
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The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.
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When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
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