Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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