My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.Thomas Jefferson
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood
Thomas Jefferson
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.
Thomas Jefferson
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson
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