I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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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 cannot live without books.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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