The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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