I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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