Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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