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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