| Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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