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Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.
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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If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.
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As government grows, freedom recedes.
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
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Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
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[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.
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Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
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If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
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While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
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Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
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The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.
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