Sunday, June 19, 2022
Frugality
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry (January 26, 1799):
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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.
