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Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
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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The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
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The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.
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besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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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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Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.
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With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
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