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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
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Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
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For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
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If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
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It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
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An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
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The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
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No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
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I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.
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The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.
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