The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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