Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Jefferson’

“What is more necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?  A wise a frugal government, . . . which shall leave [citizens] otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.” — Thomas Jefferson

“What is more necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?  A wise and frugal government . . . which shall leave [citizens] otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution.  Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” Thomas Jefferson