The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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 hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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