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Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
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I live for books.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.



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

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

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

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