The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I cannot live without books.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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