American government Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American government Capitalism Conservative Corporations Debt Debt by founding fathers Deficit spending Economic freedom Forefathers Founders Founding Founding america Freedom and liberty Freedom liberty Government debt Government welfare Historical Inspirational Libertarian Liberty Limited government Limiting government Load Monetary system National debt Our founding fathers Perpetual Property rights Rulers Servitude Us founding fathers Voting founding fathers
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try. — Michael N. Castle 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. We must… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge.… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not… — Claire McCaskill 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
“For the same reason , the American government has invented a completely new juridical category , that of 'illegal enemy combatants'. In general, the… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
“vividly revealed the arms industry’s ‘constant tendency towards bribery, and the playing off of one country against another to sell arms’. It also exposed… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Are they a secret part of the American government or a powerful private corporation? Is there a difference? To me, it doesn’t matter. It’s… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first place. Their… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Whatever his disappointments, Hamilton, forty, must have left Philadelphia with an immense feeling of accomplishment. The Whiskey Rebellion had been suppressed, the country's finances… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“American breweries preexisted American government; some of the breweries’ staunchest supporters were also the leaders of the new nation. In colonial America, the alehouse… — Marty Nachel Copy Share Image
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul… — Walid Shoebat Copy Share Image
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