I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. The issuing powers should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.Thomas Jefferson
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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