 | Charles Austin Beard - Political parties - 1928 - 168 pages
...opinion of commerce and industry, which created urban masses. "The mobs of great cities," he asserted, "add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body." Holding such opinions, Jefferson set out to enlist a large following in his struggle against the capitalistic... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization - 1935 - 60 pages
...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... | |
 | United States - 1928 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | George F. Will - Political Science - 1999 - 384 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 276 pages
...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 - History - 2000 - 274 pages
...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 Howard Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 368 pages
...workshops remain in Europe. It is better to carry provisions and materials, and with them their manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities...Atlantic will be made up in happiness and permanence of government.10 An acceptable foreign policy had to incorporate these values. Jefferson paraphrased its... | |
 | William M. Adler - Business & Economics - 2001 - 368 pages
...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... | |
 | John R. Wallach - Philosophy - 2010 - 484 pages
...to workmen there, than bring them to the provisions and materials, and with them their manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities...much to the support of pure government, as sores do the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic... | |
 | William M. Wiecek - History - 2001 - 300 pages
...Americans recalled Thomas Jefferson's aversion to cities and their impact on the political system: "[T]he mobs of great cities add just so much 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 is a canker which soon eats... | |
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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. 
