Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Wouldn't it be nice to hear things like this from today’s politicians?
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the
issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all
property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from
wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle
which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too
much government.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing
to work and give to those who would not.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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