A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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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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