"The multiplication of public offices, increase of..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
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“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.”
“the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.”
“God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.”
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“Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.”
“All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.”
“It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.”
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“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
“India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.”