Economy Quote by Jerry Brown

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

— Pat Robertson

“But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage…

— Calvin Coolidge

“In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best…

— Thomas J. Craughwell

“America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and…

— Jon Meacham

“Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out…

— R.B. Bernstein

For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently,…

— Newt Gingrich

Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its…

— H. L. Mencken

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow…

— William J. Clinton

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able…

— Grace Lee Boggs

All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be…

— Michael Parenti

“When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of church and state, and the meaning of the American Revolution, we do…

— R.B. Bernstein