The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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