Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds. The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson - Page 141by Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...reason as follows. We have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to theii country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 526 pages
...citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to theit country, and wedded to its liberty and interests,...would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or any diing else. But our citizens will find employment in this line, till their numbers, and of course their... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...reason as follows. We have now lands enough to employ an infmite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to theit country, and wedded to its liberty-and interests, by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1830 - 488 pages
...reason as follows. We have now lands enough lo employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....the most vigorous, the most independent, the most viriuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most... | |
| George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 588 pages
..."We have now," he says, "lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....the most independent, the most virtuous, and they arc tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds. As long,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 642 pages
...reason as follows. We have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else. But our citizens will find employment in this line, till their numbers, and of course... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 660 pages
...reason as follows. We have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else. But our citizens will find employment in this line, till their numbers, and of course... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...reason as follows. We have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else. But our citizens will find employment in this line, till their numbers, and of course... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
...reason as follows. We have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lusting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 710 pages
...reason as follows. We have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....the most independent, the most virtuous, and they arc tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds. As long,... | |
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