by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 24, 2015 | Economics, Founders, President, Quotes, Subject, Thomas Jefferson, Uncategorized
“I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 24, 2015 | Economics, Equality, Founders, Freedom, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, Quotes, Subject, Thomas Jefferson
“A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering… And the fore horse of this frightful...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 12, 2015 | Founders, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” Thomas Jefferson, courtesy of BrainyQuotes
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 12, 2015 | Founders, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.” Thomas Jefferson, Courtesy of BrainyQuotes
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition...
