Quote of the Day

August 17, 2018 by · Leave a Comment
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“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”

— Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of American and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Quote of the Day

June 24, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
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“I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of it’s being a public blessing.”

— Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America

Monday Book Pick: The Jefferson Allegiance

September 17, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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The Jefferson Allegiance by Bob Mayer

A political thriller with conspiracies linked to secret branches of organizations founded by the Thomas Jefferson (author of the Declaration of Independane and the third President) and Alexander Hamilton (first Secretary of the Treasury). Plenty of action and lots of history. A tasty bit of reading for somebody like me, who likes thrillers, conspiracies and American history.

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Quote of the Day

May 10, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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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.”

Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America

Quote of the Day

March 10, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”

– Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America.