“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.”
“It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
“All men are created equal.”
“Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation.”
“Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.”
“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.”
“The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.”
“No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.”
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
“The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.”
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
“Coffee – the favorite drink of the civilized world.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
“A Man’s management of his own purse speaks volumes about character.”
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
“I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.”
“Freedom, the first-born of science.”
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?”
“If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?”
“God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.”
“Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!”
“If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the latter.”
“It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.”
“The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.”
“If you have to eat crow, eat it while it’s young and tender.”
“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”
“A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.”
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.”
“Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.”
“Everything yields to diligence.”
“No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.”
“Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.”
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
“The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.”
“What we learn to do, we learn by doing.”
“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”
“The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
“The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.”
“Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.”
“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.”
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
“I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.”
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
“All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
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