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.
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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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 whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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