The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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 cannot live without books.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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