Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Economics
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Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them 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. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
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