We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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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.
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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.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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