The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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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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