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Paper Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
- 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in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…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 monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
- Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.
- Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
- It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I…
- The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals…
- Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned…
- That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a…
- You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
- Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
- Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships…
- Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor…
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- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
- What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. — Pearl Bailey
- Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper,… — Roseanne Barr
- The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan
- I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my… — Adele
- If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
- Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the… — Theodore Bikel
- I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers. — Andrea Bocelli