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A while back, before you all were born, I helped design and lead your country. I left for you many pieces of wisdom with the hope you may adopt them as a muse, of sorts, and not forget all that was learned throughout the history of mankind’s advancement in civilization up until the birth of our Nation in seventeen-hundred seventy-six. Here are some you all may have forgotten:<br> <br> My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. <br> <br> Never spend your money before you have earned it. <br> <br> That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. <br> <br> The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. <br> <br> The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. <br> <br> To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. <br> <br> and lastly...<br> <br> We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. <br> <br> Now, please, sit and think, and ask yourself where your parents and grandparents have led our nation. Are you happy? What a travesty that you have taken such a miracle of mankind; the foundation of a truly independent collaboration of states, born of liberty, and have molded it through your greed and gluttony into a mass of sheep led by a cowardly elite bent on serving their own interests. I am truly ashamed of those who followed me. And whilst I’m not one known for proclaiming that I have offered forewarning (I believe you use the term, “I told you so”), I must point out that I appear to have indeed been right in condemning the creation of a partisan system of government. It has most apparently served you all very poorly. I wish you all the best of luck, and hope that you all will never have to relive the bittersweet agony of remolding a people into a right and honorable Republic.<br> <br> ...And what is with this terrible security code? This is worse than the wax seals I had to use when I was in office...
By Thomas Jefferson
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