6 Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Work

Thomas Jefferson quotes on work

42. 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.

75. 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.

116. That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

130. I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

138. 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.

208. I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.