The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.Thomas Jefferson
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
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Tranquility is the old man's milk.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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