Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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