The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which shall have been made, due regard will be had to an equitable allowance for the circumstance of depreciation.


Letter to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 1791. ME 8:247. - Posthumous publications - On financial matters

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which...

The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which...

The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which...

The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which...