Sorry, I first read it hear FRiend, copied and pasted to my FR homepage.
Sorry, didn’t mean to claim anything like intent on your part.
There are a great many similar quotations floating around attributed to one or another of the Founders. Many of them came up during the Cold War, when anti-communists were trying to get moral backing for their cause.
The giveaway in this one is that it just doesn’t fit the period when TJ and the others were alive. This was before the invention of the welfare state and governments didn’t “give” things to their people, they took them. None of the political issues of the early country had much of anything to do with “giving” people more welfare. There was no such thing as welfare.
So why would TJ say something against governments that promise a lot of stuff? There were no such governments.