American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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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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If God is just, I tremble for my country.
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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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