Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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