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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

~Thomas Jefferson

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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

~Thomas Jefferson

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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13th, 1743

Died: July 4th, 1826

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