I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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