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Thomas Jefferson on Banking

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Such prophetic words!

"Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation." --Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 1791. ME 8:241
 
I have a file in my computer with quotes from Thomas Jefferson...

Here are a few of my favorites...

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson


Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson


It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson


That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson


The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson


The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson


We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
 
Some say that Mr. Jefferson lives here still, and that the sun rises and sets on the lawn at UVA . . .

Having lived here for more than twenty years, and as a <span style="text-decoration: underline">huge</span> fan of Mr. Jefferson and the founding fathers, all of whom lived and worked near here (Jefferson, Madison and Monroe all had law offices in downtown C'ville), I tend to believe it! His works are everywhere around C'ville and a trip to Monticello never fails to inspire.

My wife (a UVA grad) and I visit Monticello two or three times per year. As the seaons change, the place is beautiful in the different seasonal views. If you've never been, you must try to go. There's no place like it on earth and you can feel his presence there, no doubt about it.

A giant among men, he was. :yesnod:
 
martx-5 said:
I have a file in my computer with quotes from Thomas Jefferson...

Here are a few of my favorites...

I predict future happiness for Americans <span style="font-weight: bold">if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them</span>.
Thomas Jefferson


To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
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Are you trying to get me banned from my own forum? :shocked:
 
Not a Jeffersonian,Boss?

I'm kind of a Jacksonian myself.
Find it ironic that he is on the $20 and he hated paper money.
 
I think he ~is~ a fan of Jefferson, Don. THAT's th' problem. :smirk:

I know I had to bite MY digital tongue. :shocked:
 
...tell that to Don.... :wink:
 
:lol: :hammer: :cheers:
 
As a New Englander, I like and admire John Adams a whole lot more than Jefferson.
 
They reconciled. :wink:
 
DrEntropy said:
They reconciled. :wink:
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And both died the same day - exactly 50 years to the day of the date of our Independence, July 4th.
 
Basil said:
DrEntropy said:
They reconciled. :wink:
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And both died the same day - exactly 50 years to the day of the date of our Independence, July 4th.
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Did they shoot each other?
 
And Jefferson's: "At least Adams still lives."

*sheesh* Y'd a thunk they'd-a texted one another. :jester:
 
My favorite Jefferson quote:

"But our machines have now been running for 70. or 80. years, and we must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for awhile, all will at length surcease motion."(1)

He said this in a letter to John Adams regarding problems he was having with his Model A Ford.


(1)Cappon, Lester J. ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.
 
coldplugs said:
My favorite Jefferson quote:

"But our machines have now been running for 70. or 80. years, and we must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for awhile, all will at length surcease motion."(1)

He said this in a letter to John Adams regarding problems he was having with his Model A Ford.


(1)Cappon, Lester J. ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.
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Ummmmm.....
 
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