I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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.
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