I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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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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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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