The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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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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