It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.Thomas Jefferson
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas.
Thomas Jefferson
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
Thomas Jefferson
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Thomas Jefferson
It is unfortunate for our peace, that unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
Thomas Jefferson
The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them
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