The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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