 ... phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers....  Notes on the State of Virginia - Página 172por Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 280 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Matthew McCormack - 2005 - 244 páginas
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." It should be stressed that these were not merely vague ideals or goals, but were generally held to... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - 2005 - 270 páginas
...Jefferson remarked in his Notes on the State of Virginia: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition" by those in government. Self-reliant citizens are free citizens in the sense that they are not dependent... | |
 | Arthur C. Brooks - 2007 - 272 páginas
...welfare system, Thomas Jefferson uttered these words: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." This is not a "conservative" idea; progressive leaders have notably said the same thing. President Franklin... | |
 | Mary Weaks-Baxter - 2006 - 208 páginas
...and his ancestors saw no worth in a society in which "dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Mrs. Grier's answer, according to Bradford an answer that is a reflection of the lives of the yeoman... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 páginas
...Roger C. Weightman, Monticello, June 24, 1826 Dependence Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 Difficulties Calamity was our best physician. To Richard Price,... | |
 | Richard A. Holland - 2006 - 265 páginas
...America would best remain a nation of independent farmers: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. [. . .] While we have land to labour then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench,... | |
 | R. Bruce Hull - 2006 - 273 páginas
...example. [In contrast, urbanization and industrialization] . . . begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength... | |
 | Walter F. Murphy - 2007 - 588 páginas
...a "free government" required some economic autonomy: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ... It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour."59 The system probably... | |
 | Clayton Sinyai - 2006 - 310 páginas
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. . . . [Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears... | |
 | George Hovis - 2007 - 348 páginas
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."61 This passage makes clear Jefferson's celebration of the yeoman's self-sufficiency, lack... | |
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