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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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384 |
AUTHOR:
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Thomas Jefferson (17431826) |
QUOTATION:
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I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of it’s constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing. |
ATTRIBUTION:
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Vice President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to John Taylor, November 26, 1798.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 7, p. 310 (1896). |
SUBJECTS:
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Debt |
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