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«What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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from time to time, manure, patriots, refreshed, signify, tyrants
«The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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associated, General Government, institution, orthodox, The General, under it
«I had laid it down as a law for my conduct while in office, and hitherto scrupulously observed, to accept of no present beyond a book, a pamphlet, or other curiosity of minor value; as well to avoid imputation on my motives of action, as to shut out»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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hitherto, imputation, minor, motives, observed, pamphlet, pamphlets, scrupulously, shut down, shut out
«I would wish my countrymen to adopt just so much of European politeness as to be ready to make all those little sacrifices of self, which really render Europeans amiable, and relieve society from the disagreeable scenes to which rudeness often subjec»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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amiable, countrymen, European, politeness, relieve, rudeness, scenes
«Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it»
«Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy»
«The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest»
«Peace is our passion»
«Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error»
«We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever»
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