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Thomas Jefferson

(1743–1826) · American President

American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

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