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Thomas Jefferson

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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.


— Thomas Jefferson


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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.


— Thomas Jefferson


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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.


— Thomas Jefferson


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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.


— Thomas Jefferson


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If God is just, I tremble for my country.


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


— 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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