Thomas Jefferson

• I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. (1816)
• What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preseve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
• Not less than 2 hours a day should be devoted to exercise & the weather should be little regarded. If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.