"Stock dealers and banking companies, by the..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.
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“I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.”
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“History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”
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“Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.”
“Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman”