The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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