Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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