Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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