To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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