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Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.
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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To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.
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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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