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Thomas Jefferson

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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.


— Thomas Jefferson


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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.


— Thomas Jefferson


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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.


— Thomas Jefferson


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We never repent of having eaten too little.


— Thomas Jefferson


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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.


— 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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