 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 pagine
...within ourselves, and not to lean on others. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Take any race of animals, confine them in idleness, whether in a stye, a stable, or a state-room, pamper... | |
 | Robert E. Shalhope - 2004 - 220 pagine
...an end to liberty. By undermining independence, each "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."32 While they would never consider enslaving free people, no matter how dependent, Jefferson... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 pagine
...it on casualties and caprice of customers. 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... | |
 | Peter Coviello - 243 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. (Notes, 165) Here again is the Jeffersonian rhetorical sweep, deployed in this instance to damn unreservedly... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - 2005 - 270 pagine
...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... | |
 | Matthew McCormack - 2005 - 244 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." It should be stressed that these were not merely vague ideals or goals, but were generally held to... | |
 | Tom Downey - 2006 - 290 pagine
...selfish manipulation. "Dependence begets subservience," Jefferson declared, "and venality suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Only in an agrarian society, with its widespread ownership of productive property, could a virtuous... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - 2005 - 414 pagine
...Jefferson continued, because dependence on other nations for something as basic as food "suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Jefferson and men like him considered the specific benefits of husbandry to be endlessly fertile, powerful... | |
 | Michael D. Chan - 2006 - 249 pagine
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. 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... | |
 | Arthur C. Brooks - 2007 - 272 pagine
...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... | |
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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... 
