JEFFERSON, THOMAS : I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ( (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke, English philosopher, 1632-1704Banks: I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : If I had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : The hole and the patch should be commensurate. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : Resort to ridicule only when reason is against us. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

JEFFERSON, THOMAS : Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)