Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.Thomas Jefferson
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God.
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Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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