I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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