The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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