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“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”

… is from a letter Jefferson wrote in 1824. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-4523

As far as I know, the rest of it has nothing to do with Jefferson.

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