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 JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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