I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our g — Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our g — Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our g — Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our g — Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our g — Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
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I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.

— Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
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