The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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