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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

~Thomas Jefferson

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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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.

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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13th, 1743

Died: July 4th, 1826

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