 | Andrei Cherny - 2008 - 290 lapas
...to labor let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench," he wrote on one occasion. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he wrote on another. For these people, the common people of the country, Jefferson was a champion.... | |
 | Adam D. Sheingate - 2003 - 300 lapas
...Japanese Agriculture. core political values and national well-being.74 The Jeffersonian ideal that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" still holds sway in American political culture. During the 1980s, when farmers endured their worst... | |
 | Michael A Flannery, Lloyd Library And Museum, Dennis B Worthen - 2001 - 352 lapas
...ingenuity rather than birth and custom. Jefferson pointed to the yeomanry to fulfill this noble charge: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he declared in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1785). 1 Years later he told the French economist... | |
 | Rebecca Starr - 2000 - 304 lapas
...cultivation of his estates at Mount Vernon to take up the presidency. 42 According to Jefferson, of course, "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." 43 But Jefferson went further: Wherever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 2009 - 566 lapas
...business of agriculture. Jefferson's preference for agriculture predated his conflict with Hamilton. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he wrote in the 1784 Notes on Virginia, "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made... | |
 | Frederick V. Carstensen - 2002 - 184 lapas
...landholders are the most precious part of a state" (emphasis addedl. 1 This was because he thought that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people" 1 and that "the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State... | |
 | Janet Beer, Bridget Bennett - 2002 - 282 lapas
...1859 still its most renowned inhabitant and he had famously celebrated farmwork: 'Those who labor on the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people ... It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire'. 43 Yet Jefferson himself conspicuously... | |
 | James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 2002 - 460 lapas
...blasphemies did not convince voters of his apostasy, they should consider his statement that farmers "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." This dumbfounded his critics: if ever7.2* Jefferson proved his irreligion through deeds as well as... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 lapas
...organization. In Notes on Virginia, he explicitly attributed virtue to farmers and vice to city-dwellers: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, . . . whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - 562 lapas
...describing his ideal citizen, Jefferson wrote this memorable passage in Query XIX: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he hac a chosen people, whose breasts he has his peculiar deposit for substantia and genuine virtue. It... | |
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breast He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial. 
