Wise beyond Years

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

 

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Thomas Jefferson

 

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