Money Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

— Thomas Jefferson

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

— Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have it.

— Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

— Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

— Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

— Thomas Jefferson

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

— Thomas Jefferson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

— Thomas Jefferson

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large…

— Thomas Jefferson

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is…

— Thomas Jefferson

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

— Thomas Jefferson

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power…

— Thomas Jefferson

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents…

— Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid…

— Thomas Jefferson

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould…

— Thomas Jefferson

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and…

— Thomas Jefferson

You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained…

— Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and…

— Thomas Jefferson

1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

— Thomas Jefferson

Don't spend your money till you have it.

— Thomas Jefferson

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

— Thomas Jefferson

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

“I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming…

— Thomas Jefferson

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by…

— Thomas Jefferson