Thomas Jefferson

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"That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain."	Peace
"The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery."	God, Presidency
"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them."	Race
"You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair."	Anti-Religion, War
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."	Fear
"The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one."	Wisdom
"The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American."	America
"The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American."	Quotations
"Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms. The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind."	Family
"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."	Happiness
"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."	Economics, History
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."	Economics, History
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."	Quotations
"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."	Nature
"The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ."	God, Taxes
"We never repent of having eaten too little."	Quotations
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."	Freedom
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."	Government
"Never spend your money before you have it."	Money
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."	Power
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