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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson föddes den 21 august 1762 och dog den 4 juli 1826 - of the Declaration of Independence.
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My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers

The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless

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

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

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