Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Work
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If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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The hour of emancipation is advancing. . . this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.
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That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
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I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.