"There is not in the British empire..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.
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“France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.”
“No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.”
“No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.”
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“Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”
“Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.”
“Our country is wherever we are well off.[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”
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“The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.”
“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.”
“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”