If we can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them,
they must become happy.
. . . Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Thomas Cooper
1802
The principle of spending money to
be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a
large scale.
. . . Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Taylor
1816
I think we have more machinery of
government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the
industrious.
. . . Thomas Jefferson
Letter to William Ludlow
1824
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