I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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