The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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