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While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
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 believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.
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Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
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If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.
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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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I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
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The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
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