Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The dead should not rule the living.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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