American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
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Power is not alluring to pure minds.
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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