Thursday, January 21, 2010

Parasites

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


--Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824
Posted by Bard at 8:41 AM

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2010 at 10:29 AM

    And government was too big, then. Less than two score years after the founding.

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