The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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 whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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