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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

~Thomas Jefferson

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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13th, 1743

Died: July 4th, 1826

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