The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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