I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too ma…

Thomas Jefferson
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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1977). The Portable Thomas Jefferson, p.461, Penguin
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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1977). The Portable Thomas Jefferson, p.461, Penguin

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