I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Experience 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.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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