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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

~Thomas Jefferson

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I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

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We never repent of having eaten too little.

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13th, 1743

Died: July 4th, 1826

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