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...practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an over-ruling...blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which...

...address, delivered in 1801, after enumerating the rich opportunities available to Americans, he said: With all these blessings, what more is necessary to...which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and...

...practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the lave of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence,...happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter (emphasis added). Given Jefferson's youthful avowals on the subject of religion, this statement is...

...greater happiness hereafter — with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens...restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take...

...Nation, George Washington, April 30, 1789 [Acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence . . . with all these blessings, what more is necessary to...happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens-a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which...

...government that animated the Constitution. As Thomas Jefferson said, "the sum of good government" is "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...

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...and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts." Jefferson insisted on a return to first principles: "a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another" and be dominated by the legislature was the "sum of good government."10" Believing that the citizenry...

...that he wished the nation to know that he planned to follow to the best of his ability. He called for "a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement."...