Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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 governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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