Thomas Jefferson on dependency
Thomas Jefferson,
better known for authoring something else:
on poverty-trap means-testing (1785) :
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the design of ambition.”
– Quoted (page 95) in Lawrence J. Vale’s excellent From the Puritans to the Projects, on the history of public housing in the United States.
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