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• Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest me
  with understanding sufficient for their stations....
• Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
• This is the Fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, last words (July 4, 1826)
• This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1826, Last Word
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• How many Yale students -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  None, New Haven looks better in the dark....
• The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred , ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, 1826...
• But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religio
  before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing t heir oppressors in Church and State....
• I have never been so well pleased, as when I could shift power from my own, on the sholders of othe
  or have I ever been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others....