--Thomas Jefferson

"Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands."

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." --Thomas Jefferson

Excessive taxation ... will carry reason and reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election." --Thomas Jefferson

+ s of the union; and therefore the idea of sacrificing the former to the latter is totally inadmissible." --Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Rat

+ While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component part

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson, autobiography, 1821