In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.


The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1776-1781 (ed. 1893)

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which...

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which...

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which...

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which...