Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Jean Guillaume Hyde de Neuville, 13 Dec. 1818 [Quote]
I rejoice, as a Moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature. it is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich it is a prohibition of it’s use to the midling class of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of...