Famous Quotes | A country whose buildings are of...

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament. - Thomas Jefferson
Attribution: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), Query 15, p. 154, ed. William Peden (1954).

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