heavenlyboy34
04-20-2009, 02:02 PM
"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 mis-managers to account 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 automotons of misery . . . . And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."
--July 12, 1816 letter from Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval
Special thanks to the LRC bloggers for reminding me of this. :cool::D:)
--July 12, 1816 letter from Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval
Special thanks to the LRC bloggers for reminding me of this. :cool::D:)