Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. – Thomas Jefferson

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government
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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 by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson

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Banks / Banking
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Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. – Matthew Simpson

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Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. – Louis Kossuth

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He was one of the few great rulers whose wisdom increased with his power, and whose spirit grew gentler and tenderer as his triumphs were multiplied. – James A. Garfield

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Wisdom

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region. – Shimon Peres

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Freedom

We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy. – Iveta Radicova

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Shes the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. – Mae West

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