Thomas Jefferson spoke volumes about service to one's country. He knew that being in Congress was not meant to be a career.
"All can be done peaceably, by the people confining their choice of Representatives and Senators to persons attached to republican government and the principles of 1776, not office-hunters, but farmers, whose interests are entirely agricultural. Such men are the true representatives of the great American interest, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments." --Thomas Jefferson to Arthur Campbell, 1797. ME 9:420
He also knew the dangers of special interests:
It [is] a cause of just
uneasiness, when we [see] a legislature legislating
for their own interests, in opposition
to those of the people.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 118. Ford ed., i, 200.
(1792)
Vote them out all of them. Take some time out and read Jefferson. He warns us all. We need to exercise our power.
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