Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I 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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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