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“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.”

Book: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

Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States is a comprehensive compilation of the personal documents of Thomas Jefferson. The book provides a detailed look into Jefferson's life and work, including his presidency, his views on slavery, and his contributions to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. The correspondence and private papers offer a unique perspective on the political landscape of his time, revealing his interactions with contemporaries and his own reflections on the issues of his era. more

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, a distinguished politician, philosopher, architect, and scientist. He was born on April 13, 1743, and died on July 4, 1826. Jefferson advocated for democracy and freedom in politics and was one of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence. His political ideas had a profound impact on the founding and development of the United States. more

“All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.”

Feels Should Art Causes Powerful Secret Enemy Effects Arms Standing Cursed Combining Open Arms

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

“The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.”

Firsts Character Evil Party Influence Paper Cures Metals Monopoly Circulation Multiplication Precious Metal Supplanting

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.”

Ifs Ends Left Moral Progress Citizens Destruction Constitution Fortune Corruption Covered Contemplating Banking Sweeping

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.”

Use Deals Economy Cutting Environmental Woods Cutting Down

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.”

Men Hands Desire Turns Strong Nature Cities Europe Misery Live By Great Cities Dissipation

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!”

Looks Nature Feet Rain Clouds Snow Sublime Thunder Hail Workhouses

Book:Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers

Source: Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers

“Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.”

Knows Lying Half Filled Newspapers Better Off Truth And Lies Half Truth

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“When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.”

Earth Quality Rich Environmental Abundance Yield Defiance Drought

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“And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast, delicious varieties for our tables, refreshments from our orchards, the adornments of our flower-borders, shade and perfume of our groves, materials for our buildings, or medicaments for our bodies.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

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