The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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