Which founding father said charity alone cannot solve social problems?

Question

and that by using government to provide education and job training, people can rise out of poverty?

"There are, in every country, some magnificent charities established by individuals. It is, however, but little that any individual can do, when the whole extent of the misery to be relieved is considered. He may satisfy his conscience, but not his heart. He may give all that he has, and that all will relieve but little. It is only by organizing civilization upon such principles as to act like a system of pulleys, that the whole weight of misery can be removed... The plan here proposed will reach the whole. It will immediately relieve and take out of view three classes of wretchedness-the blind, the lame, and the aged poor; and it will furnish the rising generation with means to prevent their becoming poor; and it will do this without deranging or interfering with any national measures."

"By adopting this method, not only the poverty of the parents will be relieved, but ignorance will be banished from the rising generation, and the number of poor will hereafter become less, because their abilities, by the aid of education, will be greater. Many a youth, with good natural genius, who is apprenticed to a mechanical trade, such as a carpenter, joiner, millwright, shipwright, blacksmith, etc., is prevented getting forward the whole of his life from the want of a little common education when a boy."

I did not know that.

No. It was Thomas Paine. He said this in his Agrarian Justice and RIghts of Man essays.

Nice quotes. I'll have to add them to my list.

Answer 1

Wasn't it Jefferson? He did found and start the first public school in America. Or, was it Thomas Paine, in the "Rights of Man," I can't remember.

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1370.htm

Answer 2

Whoever it was, I'm sure neocons will denounce him as a socialist.
But I am assuming it was this guy, one of the greatest minds of all time:
http://www.thomaspaine.org/Archives/agjst.html