[Straight Vermonter]

She had good company.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor (29 November 1766)

[svcw]

Nice. Love that quote. I think I'll put it on my FaceBook status.
My Mom was wise beyond her young years when she went to be with the Lord. She grounded her kids in conservative principles before it was even a topic of discussion. Oh, she died when she was 31, March 1959.