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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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