It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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