I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
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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.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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