I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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