Thomas Jefferson actually said...

These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly $18M of principal.

Fifth Annual Message

12/02/1805

More Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which ...

But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?

It will be perceived that some of these are not of recent dates, and that from the States of Maryland, Delaware, and Tennessee no returns ar...

No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of the balance of $18,560 unexpended on the 31st day of December, 1803, when the last a...