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.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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