“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

–Mark Twain

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

— Heraclitus

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

–George Bernard Shaw

I would only add that this goes double for politicians…

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear.”

–Ronald Reagan

“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”

–Mary McCarthy