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
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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