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How Much Government Do We Need?

Our Founders were liberal thinkers for their day. Today, we call them "classical liberals". Our Founders believed that individual well-being, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by "as much liberty as possible" and "as little government as necessary."

In 1821, when the United States Government was only a fraction of what it is today, Thomas Jefferson said it needed "pruning knife". Imagine what he would think today.

We have provided some historic quotes a informative links for you in an effort to address this question. We welcome your comments.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821

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, September 6, 1824

Of Markets, Governments, Lawyers & Freedom (John Stossel
http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/pdf/pdialg_47.pdf

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