Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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