President Jefferson

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“What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“[D]ispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)