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

Thomas Jefferson

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 JEFFERSON

Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Democracy Freedom Government Liberty Man Politics
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fund Future Money Principle
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Destructive Ending Government People Politics Right
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 JEFFERSON

Challenge Corporation Country Government Law Strength
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Business Deal Great Love
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Depend Freedom Healing Liberty Lost
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Education Equality People Philosophy Treatment
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Earth Generation Independence Judgement Nation Politics
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Future Government Happiness People Politics
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Declare Experience Government Man Poor Rich
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Exist Fear Lost Reserve Truth World
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Attend Degree Expose Inconveience Liberty Reveal
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
Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Dispute Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go One Liner Please
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

DAngry Escape Guilty Justice Law Punishment
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Dreamss Future History Inspirational One Liner Past
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Animal Experience Man Poor Prey Rich
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Calm Courage Liberty Men Prefer Time
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Gain Government Ground Liberty Progress
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Country Culture Nature Plant Service
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fear Government Liberty People Politics
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Authority Exist Leaving People Responsible
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Freedom Legal Religion

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