I believe Thomas Jefferson would not be blissful or capsized by today's evolution. When Jefferson died he left strict instructions that only three things be inscribed on his tomb. ... But in a way to cut the deficit I am sure Jefferson would be all for cutting the Department of Education as a way to cut into the ridiculous deficit, as he sees it, knowing that enough individuals would have enough knowledge to efficiently run it on their own. ... But, I am sure that we have not lived up to his expectations, nor that we are as competent at building on the foundation as he was on laying it...

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"I take my hat off whenever someone say my daddy's name. But I ain't gonna be no fool about no sentimental value" (Wilson 51). ... And he died over giving me that. I ain't gonna let it sit up there and rot without trying to do something with it" (Wilson 46). Boy Willie's father, who died over the piano, gave Boy Willie that same piano. ...

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" (Henry 3) Arguably the most famous quote of this time period, Patrick Henry is saying that he would rather die than live under oppression. ... This lays the basis for the adventures they incur, and the freedoms they both experience throughout the story and how they own earn their own independence. At the end of the book Huck says, "But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and civilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.... In Langston Hughes' I, Too, Sing America, Hughes' says "I ...

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