The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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 little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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