Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Jefferson’
Founders Quote of the Day
Founder’s Quote Daily Wednesday, October 5, 2011 “If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 [Read More]
Founders Quote of the Day
Founder’s Quote Daily Tuesday, October 4, 2011 “It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or [Read More]
Founders Quote of the Day
Founder’s Quote Daily Thursday, September 29, 2011 “War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with [Read More]
Founders Quote of the Day
Founder’s Quote Daily Thursday, September 22, 2011 “The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor, 1816 [Read More]
Founders Daily Quote
Founder’s Quote Daily Monday, September 19, 2011 “The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady [Read More]
Founders Quote of the Day
Founder’s Quote Daily Monday, September 12, 2011 “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to [Read More]
