“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)”

1:61-2
"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

Letter to Coleridge 1790.

Letter to John Davis (18 January 1824). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-12_Bk.pdf, pp. 331–332
1820s
Context: I thank you, Sir, for the copy you were so kind as to send me of the revd. Mr. Bancroft's Unitarian sermons. I have read them with great satisfaction, and always rejoice in efforts to restore us to primitive Christianity, in all the simplicity in which it came from the lips of Jesus. Had it never been sophisticated by the subtleties of Commentators, nor paraphrased into meanings totally foreign to its character, it would at this day have been the religion of the whole civilized world. But the metaphysical abstractions of Athanasius, and the maniac ravings of Calvin, tinctured plentifully with the foggy dreams of Plato, have so loaded it with absurdities and incomprehensibilities, as to drive into infidelity men who had not time, patience, or opportunity to strip it of its meretricious trappings[. ]

Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)

Original: (it) Le persone speciali ti conquistano con la loro semplicità.
Source: prevale.net

A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work

The Case against the Fed.

Original: (it) È dalla pura semplicità che nasce originalità.
Source: prevale.net