The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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