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People can punch me in the shoulder and it still probably wouldn't bother me as much as raising my arm above my head. It's definitely scary to feel your shoulder come out, but as the season went on I got used to it.


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THOMAS JEFFERSON I, however, place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depe...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make of our country...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate wo...
THOMAS JEFFERSON And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most indepe...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war....
THOMAS JEFFERSON The character of our coasts, remarkable in considerable parts of it for admitting no vessels of size...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man;...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massach...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, the abuses of monarchy had so much filled all the space of political contemplation, that w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON One half of our brethren who fight and pay taxes, are excluded, like Helots, from the rights of repr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Were our State a pure democracy, in which all its inhabitants should meet together to transact all t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is...
THOMAS JEFFERSON With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues righ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my famil...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creature...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid bu...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projec...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. are the sole objects of all legit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricul...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-governm...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To preserve the freedom of the human mind and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to ...
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