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...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... 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, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

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First Inaugural Address 1801

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Thomas Jefferson

(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

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    ... erleuchtet von einer gütigen Religion, die in der Tat bekannt ist und in verschiedenen Formen praktiziert wird, aber alle Ehrlichkeit, Wahrheit, Mäßigkeit, Dankbarkeit und die Liebe des Menschen einprägen und eine übergeordnete Vorsehung anerkennen und verehren, die durch all ihre Dispensationen beweist, dass es das Glück des Menschen hier und sein größeres Glück im Jenseits erfreut - was ist bei all diesen Segnungen mehr notwendig, um uns zu einem glücklichen und wohlhabenden Volk zu machen? noch eine Sache mehr ... eine weise und sparsame Regierung, die die Menschen davon abhält, sich gegenseitig zu verletzen, wird ihnen sonst die Freiheit geben, ihre eigenen Bemühungen um Industrie und Verbesserung zu regeln, und das Brot, das sie hat, nicht aus dem Mund der Arbeit nehmen verdient. Dies ist die Summe einer guten Regierung, und dies ist notwendig, um den Kreis unserer Glückseligkeiten zu schließen.

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