Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Labour

• If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, America, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 39: 13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803”, p.84, Princeton University Press

• A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Labor Day, Secret

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

• Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Peculiar, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.182, Penguin

• A mind always employed is always happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Labor Day, Mind, May Day

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

• Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Safety, Wish

• In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Europe, Land, Labor

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.91, Hackett Publishing

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