I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery 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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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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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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