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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always val

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. – Thomas Jefferson

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

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Generations
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Thomas Jefferson
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I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? – Thomas Jefferson

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War
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Thomas Jefferson
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. – John Quincy Adams

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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. – Woodrow Wilson

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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. – Haile Selassie

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A wise man turns chance into good fortune. – Thomas Fuller

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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit. – Andrew Jackson

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle

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