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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not co

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. – Thomas Jefferson

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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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power
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Thomas Jefferson
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fear
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Trade (import / export)

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other – Diogenes Laertius

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Trade (import / export)

Random Quotes

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills. – Albert Claude

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Medical

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. – Roger Ebert

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movies

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. – Alain Badiou

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strength