…we shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves… –Thomas Jefferson to J.W. Eppes, 11 Sept. 1813
Related links
- Transcription of selected letters on the subject of “debt” to J.W. Eppes at the Library of Congress American Memory Web site
- Image of Jefferson’s letter of 11 Sept. 1813 to J.W. Eppes at the American Memory Web site
