I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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I 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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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 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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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