Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, t

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

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Society
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Labor Day

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. – Doug Larson

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Labor Day

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. – Henry van Dyke

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