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 JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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