Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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