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 the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.
Thomas JeffersonThe contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.
Thomas JeffersonThe spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.
Thomas JeffersonNo knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
Thomas Jefferson[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
Thomas JeffersonThe art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
Thomas Jefferson