Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge

Monticello Dec. 27. 1796.

I love to see honest men & honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, & then profit by their measures.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 29:231–3.
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