“Our people… will give you all the necessaries of war they produce, if, instead of the bankrupt trash they now are obliged to receive for want of any other, you will give them a paper promise funded on a specific pledge, and of a size for common circulation.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Letter to James Monroe, 1815. ME 14:228
Posthumous publications, On financial matters

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3rd President of the United States of America 1743–1826

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