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 JEFFERSONExperience 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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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