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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happen

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. – Woodrow Wilson

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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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Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. – Vachel Lindsay

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He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

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