Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I 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.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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