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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States Quotes

“The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.”

“I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.”

“Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.”