I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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