I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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