I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I cannot live without books.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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