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Honest Labor and Independence

Thomas Jefferson
"Our country is founded on the principle that the path to happiness is through honest labor and independence... The mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty, and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. "

Letter to Albert Gallatin

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: Letter to Albert Gallatin
Topics: - Labor - Happiness - Independence