We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.
Thomas JeffersonI have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
Thomas JeffersonNo person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.
Thomas JeffersonLegislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
Thomas Jefferson