Quote from Thomas Jefferson 

"Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue, and
prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

Quote by:
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source:
Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX, 1787
 
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