Who was the author of this quote?

Here are a few that have to do with government and prosperity of citizens:

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. John Adams

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good. John Adams

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. Edmund Burke (Irish statesman)

.. .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. Thomas Jefferson

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes/prosperity

It may have been Thomas Jefferson.

He had another one..." I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our civil liberties than standing armies"

And this was written about 1800!

Then again he wasn't a political commentator...the third president of the US.

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