A few Words​ of Wisdo​m from my favor​ite found​ing fathe​r.​.​.​

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

A few Words​ of Wisdo​m from my favor​ite found​ing fathe​r.​.​.​

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
" –Thomas Jefferson

“Paper is poverty…it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself” –Thomas Jefferson

"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has
found victory.
The federal government is our servant, not our master!"
–Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the
labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them” –Thomas Jefferson

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
"
–Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"
–Thomas Jefferson

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
"
–Thomas Jefferson

"Those who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was and never will be.
"
–Thomas Jefferson

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"
–Thomas Jefferson

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their
bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under
tyranny.
" –Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance.

The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly
belongs.
" –Thomas Jefferson, US President

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by
inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will
deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their
fathers conquered.
" –Thomas Jefferson, 1816

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry
and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the
sum of good government.
" – Thomas Jefferson

"In questions of powers, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from
mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
" –Thomas Jefferson - The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798


"I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers,
live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.
"
–Thomas Jefferson