If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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