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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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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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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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