Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
Interpretation
Economic stability and security contribute significantly to people's happiness and prosperity.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson highlights the vital role that industry, commerce, and security play in ensuring the well-being and prosperity of people. It suggests that a thriving economy and a stable society are essential foundations for achieving happiness and improving the quality of life for individuals and communities.
In practice
This quote could be used during a community meeting discussing local economic development.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Being rich/wealthy is being in touch with the fullness of life. When you are open to the present moment, what comes in, is a gratitude for "what is". When you are aligned with the present moment, there is a peace that comes, so it is like you are experiencing life for the first time, when you become present. When you are in a state of gratitude for what is ... that is really what being wealthy means
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
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