It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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