I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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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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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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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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