The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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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 only security of all is in a free press.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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