The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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