The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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