Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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