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Thomas Jefferson

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New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.


— 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.


— Thomas Jefferson


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


— Thomas Jefferson


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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.


— Thomas Jefferson


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


— Thomas Jefferson


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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Removing or preventing corrupting dependence would enable men to be equal in practice. At age 16 Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg and first met the law professor George Wythe who became his influential mentor. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions which if not covered will end in their destruction which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.

Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 (April 2 1743 O. Elected Vice President in 1796 when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts. In 1803 President Jefferson initiated a process of Indian tribal removal and relocation to the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi River in order to open lands for eventual American settlers.

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