Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
617
AUTHOR:
Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
QUOTATION:
I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference of price what it may.
ATTRIBUTION:
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to B. S. Barton, February 26, 1815.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 19, p. 223 (1904).