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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

~Thomas Jefferson

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13th, 1743

Died: July 4th, 1826

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