 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization - 1935 - 60 pagine
...of fire between us and the Old World. He said that in May 1797. And he also said : The mobs of the cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. George Washington, the Father of Our County, ought to be a good witness as to what is traditional in... | |
 | 1928 - 446 pagine
...representative government and the clamoring voices of unassimilated hosts demanding Democracy. He said, "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do Co the strength of the human body; it is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic... | |
 | John Warfield Simpson - 1999 - 422 pagine
...convinced him that cities were corrupting and unhealthful morally, politically, and physically. He wrote, "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."9 Jefferson believed even Williamsburg, a city of only eighteen hundred people when he attended... | |
 | Robert W. Kweit, Mary Grisez Kweit - 1999 - 492 pagine
...66. CHAPTER 15 Epilogue "The mobs of great cities," observed Thomas Jefferson, "add just so much to pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body."' Many contemporary observers of America's metropolitan areas feel that Jefferson was right. In 1967,... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 pagine
...work-shops remain in Europe. It is better to carry provisions and materials to workmen there, than bring them to the provisions and materials, and with...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these... | |
 | M. L. Tina Stevens - 2000 - 230 pagine
...associated with industrialization to Europe. "Let our work-shops remain in Europe," Jefferson urged, "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour." 4 Despite this inclination,... | |
 | George F. Will - 1999 - 384 pagine
...nation Hamilton wanted—urban, industrial, dynamic—but they want to talk like Jefferson, who said, "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government as sores do to the strength of the human body," and "I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, the liberties of man." Jefferson... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 pagine
...could not be virtuous, independent republican citizens: "Dependance begets subservience and venality"; "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." Excising these corrupt, disease-prone parts of the body politic, Jefferson defined Virginia in the... | |
 | Christopher M. Duncan - 2000 - 274 pagine
...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...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.26 We should read it in large measure as a political jeremiad much like Rousseau's designed to... | |
 | William M. Adler - 2001 - 368 pagine
...hand with vice, and believed that concentrations of people in America would "prostrate agriculture." "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government," Jefferson said, "as sores do to the strength of the human body." Hamilton, however, held that only... | |
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The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. 
