On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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