Thursday, December 16, 2010

Thomas Jefferson - Good Intentions, Welfare, and Government Spending

I see with infinite pain the bloody schism which has taken place among our friends in Pennsylvania and New York, and will probably take place in other States. The main body of both sections mean well, but their good intentions will produce great public evil. -- Thomas Jefferson

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy. -- Thomas Jefferson

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority. -- Thomas Jefferson

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