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.
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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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