Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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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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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I cannot live without books.
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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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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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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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