Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to B. S. Barton, February 26, 1815.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 19, p. 223 (1904).