American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
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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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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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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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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
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