Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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.
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