Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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