The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThere is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I cannot live without books.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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