What words and phrases indicate Jefferson's support for a small national government? “Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind . . . [E]very difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren [brothers] of the same principle. We are all republicans; we are all federalists.
Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal [thrifty] 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 . . .”—Thomas Jefferson