I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I cannot live without books.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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