Quote #206
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence
More from Thomas Jefferson
- As pure a son of liberty as I have ever known.
- Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
- It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past,-so good night!
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private ban…