Quote by Thomas Jefferson on Bureaucracy and Parasites

„I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.“

Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson criticizes excessive bureaucracy and parasites living off the labor of the industrious.
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson criticizing excessive bureaucracy and parasitic structures in government.


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Thomas Jefferson quote about government and the labor of industrious people

Thomas Jefferson quote about government, liberty, and constitutional limitsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." Thomas Jefferson
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Quote on government as a broker in pillage by Henry Louis MenckenCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." Henry Louis Mencken
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Ronald Reagan quote about government being the problem and self-governanceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe, that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price." Ronald Reagan
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