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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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