The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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