 | George McGovern - Political Science - 2004 - 192 pages
...Americans Jefferson most trusted and admired were the farmers who tilled the soil. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue," he wrote. Circling the dome of the magnificent Jefferson Memorial at the Tidal Basin of the nation's... | |
 | David E. Nye - History - 2004 - 388 pages
...agricultural nation. In a famous passage in Notes on the State of Virginia he declared: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 258 pages
...true basis of republican virtue. As he had written in Notes on the State of Virginia, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." To preserve liberty, Jefferson argued, government had to be as close to the people as possible. To... | |
 | Lance Banning - History - 2004 - 116 pages
...ability to dress ideas in highly gifted prose, had put the argument in moving language: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - History - 2004 - 396 pages
...Virginia, Jefferson glorifted agriculture in a manner reminiscent of the Gcorgics: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for genuine and substantial virtue. . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure... | |
 | Kyle Longley - History - 2004 - 382 pages
...democratic, and egalitarian American yeoman farmer. In 1787, he had written that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." He distrusted city dwellers and their perceived greed and speculation, and he feared people such as... | |
 | Rebecca Kneale Gould - Religion - 2005 - 381 pages
...Brothers, 1 945), 275-6. 82. Thomas Jefferson's words almost two hundred years earlier: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1 787), ed. William Peden (New York: WW Norton, 1 972 ),... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - Cooking - 2005 - 414 pages
...from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other?" His answer: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Food, in short, became one obvious manifestation of this virtue, a virtue critical to the political... | |
 | Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...— Srr Thomas Browne My honor is dearer to me than my life. — Miguel de Cervantes Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. — Thomas Jefferson The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. — Wilson... | |
 | Jeffrey Myers - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 212 pages
...expressing his belief that an agrarian society is the most free and most virtuous: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do the... | |
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. 
