Frases de Thomas Jefferson (500 citas, página 13)

Fuente: Carta a Isaac McPherson, 13 de agosto de 1813.
Fuente: Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 26 de septiembre, 2011, The University of Chicago, 1987, The Founders' Constitution, inglés http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html,

De vejez , Idea , Naturaleza

“¿A dónde podrá ir el que hasta aquí llegó, si más allá sólo fueron los muertos?”

Thomas Jefferson

De muerte

“Algunas veces se dice que no se le puede confiar al hombre el gobierno de sí mismo. ¿Puede, entonces, confiársele el gobierno de los demás? ¿O hemos encontrado ángeles que asumen la forma de reyes para gobernarlo? Dejemos que la historia conteste esta pregunta.”

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De hombres , Historia , Ángeles , Pregunta

“Creen que cualquier trozo de poder confiado en mí, será ejercido en oposición a sus confabulaciones. Y creen bien; porque he jurado sobre el altar de Dios hostilidad eterna contra cada forma de tiranía sobre la mente del hombre. Pero esto es todo lo que tienen que temer de mí: y esto basta, también, en su opinión.”

Thomas Jefferson

Sobre miembros del clero los cuales trataban de lograr alguna forma de Cristianismo oficial en el gobierno de EE.UU. Carta al Dr. Benjamin Rush, 23 de septiembre de 1800.

De enemistad , De hombres , De Dios

“Creo, sinceramente, como tú, que los sistemas bancarios son más peligrosos que los ejércitos.”

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“Creo que es un gran error considerar cobrar altos impuestos a los vinos como un impuesto al lujo, si lo hiciéramos estaríamos cobrándole impuestos a la salud de nuestros ciudadanos.”

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De salud , Error

“El arte de la vida es el arte de evitar el dolor.”

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De vida , De dolor , De arte

“El hombre que no teme a las verdades, nada debe temer a las mentiras.”

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De verdad , De mentira , De hombres

“Es más honorable reparar un mal que persistir en él.”

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Fuente: Carta a los jefes de la nación Cherokee, 1806.
Fuente: Jefferson, Thomas, Autobiografía y otros escritos, Madrid:Tecnos, 1987, página 618.

Mal

“Estoy a favor de un gobierno que sea vigorosamente frugal y sencillo.”

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“Indudablemente nadie se ocupa de quien no se ocupa de nadie.”

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“La fusión de los blancos con negros produce una degradación a la que ningún amante de su país, ningún amante de la excelencia en el carácter humano, puede inocentemente consentir.”

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País , Los amantes

“Los mejores momentos de mi vida han sido aquellos que he disfrutado en mi hogar, en el seno de mi familia.”

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De vida , De familia

“Mi estudio de la historia me convence de que la mayoría de los malos resultados de los gobiernos provienen de tener demasiado gobierno.”

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Historia , Mal

“Nadie abandona el cargo de presidente con el mismo prestigio y respeto que le llevó ahí.”

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“No hay talento más valioso que el de no usar dos palabras cuando basta una.”

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“No puede esperarse que los hombres sean trasladados del despotismo a la libertad en un lecho de plumas.”

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De hombres , Libertad

“Si hacemos una buena acción simplemente por amor a Dios y el convencimiento de que ello le complace, ¿de donde proviene la moralidad del ateo?... Su virtud, pues, debe haber tenido otro fundamento que el amor de Dios.”

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De amor , De Dios

“Siempre he dicho, y siempre diré que la lectura cuidadosa y diligente del Libro Sagrado produce mejores ciudadanos […] La Biblia produce las mejores personas del mundo.”

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De mundo , De gente

“Toma las cosas por el lado bueno.”

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“Un poco de rebelión de vez en cuando es buena cosa.”

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“Verdaderamente tiemblo por mi patria cuando pienso que Dios existe.”

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De Dios

“Yo creo bastante en la suerte. Y he constatado que, cuanto más duro trabajo, más suerte tengo.”

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“Creo, sinceramente, con ustedes, que los establecimientos bancarios son más peligrosos que los ejércitos permanentes y que el principio de gastar dinero para ser pagado por la posteridad, bajo el nombre de la financiación, es sin embargo una estafa futura a gran escala. El sistema de la banca nosotros lo hemos reprobado por igual. Yo lo contemplo como un borrón en todas nuestras constituciones, que, si no se protegen, terminará en su destrucción, ya que ya están siendo golpeadas por los jugadores corruptos, y está arrasando en su progreso, la fortuna y la moral de nuestros ciudadanos.”

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Fuente: Letter to John Taylor, 26 de septiembre, inglés http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=308,

De dinero , Futuro

“No muerdas el cebo del placer hasta no estar seguro de que no oculta un anzuelo.”

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De placer

Thomas Jefferson: Frases en inglés

“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

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Variation: Disobedience to tyranny is obedience to God.
This statement has often been attributed to Jefferson and sometimes to English theologian William Tyndale, or Susan B. Anthony, who used it, but cited it as an "old revolutionary maxim" — it was widely used as an abolitionist and feminist slogan in the 19th century. Benjamin Franklin proposed in August 1776 a very similar quote (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God) as the motto on the Great Seal of the United States http://www.greatseal.com/committees/firstcomm/reverse.html. The earliest definite citations of a source yet found in research for Wikiquote indicates that the primary formulation was declared by Massachusetts Governor Simon Bradstreet after the overthrow of Dominion of New England Governor Edmund Andros in relation to the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, as quoted in Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention: assembled May 4th, 1853 (1853) by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, p. 502. It is also quoted as a maxim that arose after the overthrow of Andros in A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore (1883) by Samuel Adams Drake. p. 426
Misattributed

“I allow nothing for losses by death, but, on the contrary, shall presently take credit four per cent. per annum, for their increase over and above keeping up their own numbers.”

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On his profits from slavery as quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine, (October 2012)
Attributed

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

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Often attributed to Jefferson, no original source for this has been found in his writings, and the earliest established source for similar remarks are those of John Philpot Curran in a speech upon the Right of Election (1790), published in Speeches on the late very interesting State trials (1808):
: "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."

*In a biography of Major General James Jackson published in 1809, author Thomas Charlton wrote that one of the obligations of biographers of famous people is

:"fastening upon the minds of the American people the belief, that 'the price of liberty is eternal vigilance' " (in Thomas Usher Pulaski Charlton, The life of Major General James Jackson https://books.google.com.br/books?id=cEcSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false; F.Randolph, & Co., 1809, p. 85).
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Variante: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few" (from a speech by Wendell Phillips at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society on January 28, 1852; quoted by John Morley, ed., The Fortnightly https://books.google.com.br/books?id=VfjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%E2%80%9CEternal+vigilance+is+the+price+of+liberty.%E2%80%9D+phillips+speech+anti-slavery&source=bl&ots=H2f8ckIw9o&sig=EukDrduBdK-oQSeY_Gf-VFQ6M54&hl=en&ei=SaxmTN-0H4P98AbioIi0BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CEternal%20vigilance%20is%20the%20price%20of%20liberty.%E2%80%9D%20phillips%20speech%20anti-slavery&f=false, Volume VIII, Chapman and Hall, 1870, p. 67).

“My new trade of nail-making is to me in this country what an additional title of nobility or the ensigns of a new order are in Europe”

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As quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine, (October 2012)
Attributed

“It is a palpable falsehood to say we can have specie for our paper whenever demanded. Instead, then, of yielding to the cries of scarcity of medium set up by speculators, projectors and commercial gamblers, no endeavors should be spared to begin the work of reducing it by such gradual means as may give time to private fortunes to preserve their poise, and settle down with the subsiding medium; and that, for this purpose, the States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.”

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6 November 1813, ME 13:431: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 13, p. 431
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)

“I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state for suspending the importation of slaves, and for the glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring to prevent it forever. This abomination must have an end, and there is a superior bench reserved in heaven for those who hasten it.”

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1780s, Letter to Edward Rutledge (1787)

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

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1810s, Letter to Joseph Milligan (6 April 1816)

“Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, &c. Consider every act of this kind, as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.”

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1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

“I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the ﬂame of liberty had been kindled in every breast, & had become as it were the vital spirit of every American, that the generous temperament of youth, analogous to the motion of their blood, and above the suggestions of avarice, would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.”

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1810s, Letter to Edward Coles (1814)

“The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies and falsehoods, have caricatured them into forms so monstrous and inconceivable, as to shock reasonable thinkers. … Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity, I must leave to younger athletes to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologists of the middle and modern ages.”

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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1853-1854), edited by H. A. Washington, Vol. 7, pp. 210, 257
Posthumous publications

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

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This quotation first appeared in Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as if Freedom Mattered (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986), p. 312, written under the pseudonym of John Galt. It is there attributed to Jefferson, but is not found anywhere in his works. See the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/democracy-will-cease-to-exist-quotation.
Misattributed

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

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Respectfully Quoted says this is "obviously spurious", noting that the OED's earliest citation for the word "deflation" is from 1920. The earliest known appearance of this quote is from 1935 (Testimony of Charles C. Mayer, Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5357, p. 799)
Misattributed

“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.”

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Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
1770s

“In fine, I repeat, you must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neither believe nor reject anything, because any other persons, or description of persons, have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but uprightness of the decision.”

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1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

“The State legislatures should be immediately urged to relinquish the right of establishing banks of discount. Most of them will comply, on patriotic principles, under the convictions of the moment; and the non-complying may be crowded into concurrence by legitimate devices.”

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Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:190
Posthumous publications, On financial matters

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”

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Not attribution to Jefferson earlier than William Jennings Bryan's Baltimore address of January 20, 1900
California Digital Newspaper Collection, Los Angeles Herald http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19000121.2.94.; appears in proximity to a reference to Jefferson in the 1878 "Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn", reprinting a 1850 Sacramento advertisment
via Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=Cis3Ni8wJkgC&pg=PA280 Samuel Curtis Upham, "Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn: Together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Year 1849-'50, with an Appendix Containing Reminiscences: Together with the Articles of Association and Roll of Members of "The Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California".. Earliest known variant is from the August 31, 1844 issue of "Niles' National Register", authored by the committee of William C. Bryant, George P. Barker, John W. Edmonds, David Dudley Field, Theodore Sedgwick, Thomas W. Tucker, and Isaac Townsend.
via Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=M1oUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA438.
Misattributed

“The best government is that which governs least.”

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Motto of United States Magazine and Democratic Review. First used in introductory essay by editor John L. O'Sullivan in the premier issue (October, 1837, p. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=HGtJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6&dq=%22governs+least%22). Attributed to Jefferson by Henry David Thoreau, this statement is cited in his essay on civil disobedience, but the quote has not been found in Jefferson's own writings. It is also commonly attributed to Thomas Paine, perhaps because of its similarity in theme to many of his well-documented expressions such as "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
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Variante: "That government is best which governs least"; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 56

“I, too, have made a wee-little book from the same materials, which I call the Philosophy of Jesus; it is a paradigma of his doctrines, made by cutting the texts out of the book, and arranging them on the pages of a blank book, in a certain order of time or subject. A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who call me infidel and themselves Christians and preachers of the gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its author never said nor saw. They have compounded from the heathen mysteries a system beyond the comprehension of man, of which the great reformer of the vicious ethics and deism of the Jews, were he to return on earth, would not recognize one feature.”

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Thomas Jefferson libro Jefferson Bible

Letter to Charles Thomson (9 January 1816), on his The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefJesu.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all (the "Jefferson Bible"), which omits all Biblical passages asserting Jesus' virgin birth, miracles, divinity, and resurrection. Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 11 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-11_Bk.pdf, pp. 498–499
1810s

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.”

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Letter to Abigail Smith Adams http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/006/1200/1251.jpg from Paris while a Minister to France (22 February 1787), referring to Shay's Rebellion. "Jefferson's Service to the New Nation," Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/thomas-jefferson/history4.html
1780s

“I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.”

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1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)

“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.”

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Letter to William Carmichael and William Short (1793)
1790s

“[I]f the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour?”

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1782, reported in Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux, Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III (1845), Vol. II, p. 62.
1780s

“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance, or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”

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Letter to Edward Dowse (19 April 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)

“We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretentions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.”

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1780s, Letter to John Jay (1786)

“Nearly all of it is now called in by the banks, who have the regulation of the safety-valves of our fortunes, and who condense and explode them at their will.”

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Letter to John Adams (1819) http://www.yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/jefferson/1819.html ME 15:224
Posthumous publications, On financial matters

“Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.”

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Draft of proposed Amendment to the Constitution by Jefferson, who thought an amendment would be necessary to authorize the Louisiana Purchase to be incorporated into the United States (August 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)

“The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.”

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Letter to Thomas Law, 1813. FE 9:433
Posthumous publications, On financial matters

“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”

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Letter to William Plumer (21 July 1816)
1810s

“But inequality of representation in both Houses of our legislature, is not the only republican heresy in this first essay of our revolutionary patriots at forming a constitution. For let it be agreed that a government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns (not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city, or small township, but) by representatives chosen by himself, and responsible to him at short periods, and let us bring to the test of this canon every branch of our constitution.”

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1810s, Letter to H. Tompkinson (AKA Samuel Kercheval) (1816)

“The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated.”

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Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816) ME 15:18: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 15, p. 18
1810s
Contexto: The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life.