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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Atmosphere Government Liberty Resistance Spirit Storm
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Depend Geometry Opinion Religious Rights Science
Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Dispute Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go One Liner Please
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Blessing Country Enjoyment Freedom Liberty People
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Body Enlight Mind People Spirit
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Constitution Government Men Politics Scare Touch
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bank Belong People Power Restore
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Fund Government Ideas Man Money
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

According Goodness Human Imperfection Love Perfection
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Action Be Yourself Confidence Inspirational Positive
I cannot live without books.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Addiction Book One Liner Reading
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Ignorance Prefer Truth
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Book Family Friendship Human Life World
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Ambition Design Freedom Independence Virtue

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