The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I cannot live without books.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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I 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
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The 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.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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