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• In the full tide of successful experiment.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801...
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political
  peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,--entangling alliances with none...
• Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
• This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1826, Last Word
• This is the Fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, last words (July 4, 1826)
• A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one anothe
  which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned....
• Still one more thing, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal governme
  which shall refrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned....
• I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.
  -- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) -- From the Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869...