I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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 once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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