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Our Citizens Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a…
- A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so…
- I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or…
- Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them…
- It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
- We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our…
- Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to…
- All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
- The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
- The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.
- The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause,…
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- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — Thomas Jefferson