I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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 cannot live without books.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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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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