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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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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