I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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 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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