I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I cannot live without books.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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