 | Allan Kulikoff - 2000 - 504 pagine
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dépendance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Jefferson knew that a majority of white Americans belonged to families of these virtuous small farmers.... | |
 | Jonathan M. Harris - 2003 - 308 pagine
...In his Notes on Virginia, Jefferson wrote: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition" (1781). His hope for the new system in early-nineteenthcentury America also had a very specific structural... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 pagine
...empire on the American colonists generally: "Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. '"" Like the opposition of slavery and freedom, the opposition of city vice and rural virtue was a... | |
 | David Frum - 2008 - 450 pagine
...begets subservience and venality," Thomas Jefferson wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia, 'suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." But if work was valuable only to the extent that it was interesting, dependency might be an acceptable... | |
 | John R. Wallach - 2010 - 484 pagine
...skills have sharply reduced this dependence.] Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the...but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 pagine
...subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence on customers "suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." In a letter, Jefferson listed additional virtues of the farming life: "The moderate and sure income... | |
 | Michael Novak - 2001 - 378 pagine
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.21 Some of these are powerful arguments. Even today, we see some evidence on their behalf.... | |
 | John Hood - 2001 - 334 pagine
...someone else come to feel dependent — and "dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."3 Certainly Jefferson's proposed solution — to sacrifice the economic advantages of commercialism... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pagine
...it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. A corollary of this view that only in an agrarian society were men generally independent enough to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 pagine
...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... | |
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... 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 the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence... 
