I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThere is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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