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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

~Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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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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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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If God is just, I tremble for my country.

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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13th, 1743

Died: July 4th, 1826

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