The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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