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
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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