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Thomas Jefferson
4/1743-7/1826 (Age at death: 83)

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801-1809), and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). Jefferson was one of the most influential Founding Fathers, known for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. Jefferson envisioned America as the force behind a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism and counter the imperialism of the British Empire.Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), as well as escalating tensions with both Britain and France that led to war with Britain in 1812, after he left office.

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what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms... the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots... it is it's natural manure.



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Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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Thomas Jefferson

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second time.

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Thomas Jefferson

Health, Learning and Virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem, and public honor.
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Thomas Jefferson

I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the past.

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..
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Thomas Jefferson

I have stood before the alter of God and sworn eternal hostility toward all forms of tyranny over the minds of men
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Thomas Jefferson

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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Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "-- Thomas Jefferson --
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Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks ...
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Thomas Jefferson

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

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Thomas Jefferson

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

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Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they a...
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Thomas Jefferson

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our
power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

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Thomas Jefferson

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

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