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On good government:

On Tuesday, November 7, Democrats won control of Congress in midterm elections. With so many new representatives about to take office, let’s hope our newly elected leaders will remember Thomas Jefferson’s admonition:

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”

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  1. John wrote:

    I posted this in another section, but it fits here as well. Notice how Father Jefferson says “THIS is the sum of good government.”

    “Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government…..”

    Friday, July 13, 2007 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

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