I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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