From Today's Dose of PSDs

"Let the general [federal] government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our afairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage better the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one-- a few plan duties performed by a few servants." -Jefferson, 1800

What a stark contrast that holds in comparison to the government we live under today.