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
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue 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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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