The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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