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Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
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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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Let those flatter who fear it is not an American art .
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