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Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
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 shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.
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I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.
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