"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

Diplomacy, Alliance, Commerce, Nations

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"We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland."

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"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"

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"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."

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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

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"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

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"I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."

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"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be."

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"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."

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"Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued "which would be your second choice His answer "France."

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"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

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"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion."

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"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it."

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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."

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