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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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
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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and 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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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 will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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