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They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
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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We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.
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The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
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No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.
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One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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