I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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