Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
803
AUTHOR:
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
QUOTATION:
We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with a patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government.
ATTRIBUTION:
President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Mr. Pictet, February 5, 1803.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 10, pp. 356–57 (1903).
