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Thomas Jefferson

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.


— Thomas Jefferson


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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.


— Thomas Jefferson


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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.


— Thomas Jefferson


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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.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.


— Thomas Jefferson


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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.


— Thomas Jefferson


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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.


— 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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