The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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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.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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