I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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