I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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 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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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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