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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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382 |
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AUTHOR:
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
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QUOTATION:
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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. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Vice President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 7, p. 327 (1896). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Debt |
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