The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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 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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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