The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Every 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.
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