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"[T]he greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to it’s culture; especially a bread grain. next in value to bread is oil."
- Thomas Jefferson, Summary of Public Service, after September 2, 1800[1]

References

  1. ^ PTJ, 32:124. Polygraph copy at the Library of Congress. Transcription available at Founders Online.