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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 381 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 10, p. 41 (1899). |
| SUBJECTS: | Debt |
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