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.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.
The happiest time of my life is now.
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