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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
3rd president of US [more author details]
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I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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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. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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