The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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