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title: "18 Dangerous Quotes By Thomas Jefferson"
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> [I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-sincerely-believe-that-banking-establishments-are-more-dangerous-2/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-believe-that-banking-institutions-are-more-dangerous-to-our-2/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-prefer-dangerous-freedom-over-peaceful-slavery/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-office-of-reformer-of-the-superstitions-of-a-nation-is-ever/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-an-instrument-admits-two-constructions-the-one-safe-the-other/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-more-dangerous-that-even-a-guilty-person-should-be-punished/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/to-consider-judges-as-the-ultimate-arbiters-of-all-constitutional/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/big-banks-are-more-dangerous-than-standing-armies-and-the-practice-of/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/truth-is-the-proper-and-sufficient-antagonist-to-error-and-has/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-see-now-our-fireside-formed-into-a-groupe-no-one-member-of-which/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-believe-that-banking-institutions-are-more-dangerous-to-our-4/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/resolved-that-it-would-be-a-dangerous-delusion-were-a-confidence-in/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-opinions-of-men-are-not-the-object-of-civil-government-nor-under/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-representative-body-have-lost-the-confidence-of-their/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-sincerely-believe-that-banking-establishments-are-more-dangerous/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-office-of-reformer-of-the-superstitions-of-a-nation-is-ever-more/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-country-is-headed-toward-a-single-and-splendid-government-of-an/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-shall-divert-through-our-own-country-a-branch-of-commerce-which/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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## Other authors on Dangerous

## More by Thomas Jefferson

> [A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-man-has-a-right-to-use-a-saw-an-axe-a-plane-separately-may-he-not/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/believing-with-you-that-religion-is-a-matter-which-lies-solely/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [ \[States and the Federal government are\] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/states-and-the-federal-government-are-coordinate-departments-of-one/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-freedom-of-religion-and-against-all-maneuvers-to-bring-about/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-to-the-accidental-opinion-of-a/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perceiving-the-order-of-nature-to-be-that-individual-happiness-shall/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-government-is-founded-in-jealousy-and-not-in-confidence-it-is/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/though-you-cannot-see-when-you-take-one-step-what-will-be-the-next/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-well-informed-citizenry-is-the-best-defense-against-tyranny/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-two-principles-on-which-our-conduct-towards-the-indians-should-be/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowledge-is-power-knowled-ge-is-safety-knowle-dge-is-happiness/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-an-artificial-aristocracy-founded-on-wealth-and-birth/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/nothing-but-free-argument-raillery-and-even-ridicule-will-preserve/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-people-are-afraid-of-the-government-that-s-tyranny-but-when/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-all-men-are-created/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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