I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Experience 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.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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