The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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