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  TJ-1 I cannot live without books.  
                                               
  TJ-2 When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry an hundred.  
                                               
  TJ-3 I never considered a difference in opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.  
                                               
  TJ-4 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  
                                               
  TJ-5 The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.  
                                               
  TJ-6 No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another.  
                                               
  TJ-7 It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.  
                                               
  TJ-8 I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.  
                                               
TJ-9 Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.  
                                               
  TJ-10 That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not be expected. [On referring to the United State Congress]  
                                               
  TJ-11 I find as I grow older that I love those most that I loved first.  
                                               
  TJ-12 It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.  
                                               
  TJ-13 Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.  
                                               
  TJ-14 I feel the harder I work, the more luck I have.  
     
  TJ-15 The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. (John Adams)

John Adams will see things go forward. (Thomas Jefferson)

Spoken by each on the same day of death - July 4, 1826 (Independence Day)