 | Ted Goodman - 1997 - 1008 pages
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 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...correspondences abroad, as the King of Prussia did much, and his grandfather sometimes, I know not; but certainly such a correspondence would be very interesting to...such a course of application as nothing could derange 177 but war or federalism. The gripe of the latter has shown itself as deadly as the jaws of the former.... | |
 | Georgene Muller Lockwood - 2000 - 332 pages
...of events." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Simple Wisdom "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." —Thomas Jefferson The Least You Need to Know >• Stereotypes are... | |
 | John Lauritz Larson - 2001 - 348 pages
...possible, but Jefferson took the credit in the name of wise policies and sound liberal principles: "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."33 Unfortunately, the twin pillars of Jefferson's... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business - 2001 - 272 pages
...or our republic. Thomas Jefferson had this to say: "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." In the celebrated verbiage of a letter of 1800 to Gideon Granger,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business - 2001 - 272 pages
...or our republic. Thomas Jefferson had this to say: "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." In the celebrated verbiage of a letter of 1800 to Gideon Granger,... | |
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If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. 
