No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
![“I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual. It is not easy perhaps to say of what length exactly that tour should be, but we may safely say of what length it…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/526/thomas-jefferson-43_acknowledge_i-acknowledge-that-such-a-debt-of-servic_2508145.jpg)
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