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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.

Thomas Jefferson

I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Greatness Inspirational Luck Success Work Hard
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bank Believe DAngry Institution Liberty Stand
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Friendship Man Peace Policy Pursure Wise
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Legal Religion
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fear Government Liberty People Politics
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Chapter Honesty One Liner True Wisdom
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bad Government History Politics
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Government History Ignorance People Religious
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Civilization Expectation Freedom Ignorant Nation State
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Confidence Constitution Democracy Law Man Power
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Education Equality People Philosophy Treatment
Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Accident Heritage History Public Time Wasted Time
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Fund Government Ideas Man Money
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Darkness Himself Ideas Instruction Lesson Light
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Disease Doctor Future Human Medicine Prevention

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