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in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.
Thomas JeffersonThe declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
Thomas JeffersonI believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.
Thomas JeffersonThe chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
Thomas JeffersonI hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
Thomas JeffersonBy nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.
Thomas Jefferson