The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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