"I sincerely wish you may find it..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know.
More by Thomas Jefferson
“If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.”
“I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.”
“It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.”
More on Patriotism
“The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.”
“...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.”
“Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.”
More on Travel
“To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.”
“I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.”
“A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.”