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on Tuesday, January 1, 2019Thomas Jefferson Money Quote saying emotional comfort has more value to us than does cash if choosing between the two. Thomas Jefferson said:
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money” — Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson: Common Stock Labor
on Thursday, September 13, 2018Thomas Jefferson Money Quote saying we are given land to labor over to produce food and shelter. Small plots and their owners are important to government. Thomas Jefferson said:
“The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state” — Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson: Unemployed Uncultivated
on Wednesday, August 22, 2018Thomas Jefferson Money Quote saying productive land and unproductive poor people should never exist in the same country. Thomas Jefferson said:
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right” — Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson: Earn First, Then Spend
on Friday, April 13, 2018Thomas Jefferson Money Quote saying With expectations of money comes the urge to spend before cash is received. Wait until money is in hand. Thomas Jefferson said:
“Never spend your money before you have earned it” — Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson: Civilized Commerce
on Friday, December 5, 2014Thomas Jefferson Money Quotation saying we transact and trade with finance and not with superior morals. Thomas Jefferson said:
 
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations” — Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson on Paper Money Abuses
on Sunday, August 17, 2014Thomas Jefferson Money Quotation saying risks and abuses of currency are inevitable. Thomas Jefferson said:
“That paper money has some advantages, is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable, and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied” — Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson: Accumulating Debt
on Tuesday, June 25, 2013Thomas Jefferson Money Quotation saying the creation of debt as a means to accumulate possessions creates an endless stream of owing and owning only crushing burdens. Thomas Jefferson said:
“The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating” — Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson on Gain of Commerce
on Friday, March 8, 2013Thomas Jefferson Money Quotation saying there are no higher goals or purpose for business beyond financial growth and suggests it add goals for humanity. Thomas Jefferson said:
“The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain” — Thomas Jefferson
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