...us in his still delightful Notes on Virginia (1782), hoped to keep our nation free from its toils. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the...

...require any quotalion here. For him agriculture, virtue and liberty are synonymous expressions. « Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God », Notes on Virginia, ME, 11, 229. — Only once, as far as I know, did he echo some of the views...

...in respect. He had an equally high appreciation of "those who labour in the earth," proclaiming them "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass...

...with 'malignant sarcasm.' When Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'...

...liberté sont pour lui des termes synonymes. Voir en particulier Notes on Virginia, ME, II, aag : « Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. » — Une seule fois, à ma connaissance, il a paru se faire l'écho de Montesquieu, qui va beaucoup...

...with 'malignant sarcasm.' ^Tien Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'...

...wharf. 32 Agriculture was the chosen vocation of the population of the State. In 1787 Jefferson writes: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. * * * Let us never wish to see our citizens...

...exists in all nations and at all times. Thomas Jefferson put it in words in a letter he wrote in 1781: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. . . . The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to...

...for occupation and livelihood. He did it with no unwillingness. Long before this he had declared that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," and he still believed it. He had always been interested in agriculture and he was convinced that by...

...extravagant necessities of Monticello. Jefferson was born to the soil and believed to his dying day that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." It is not of record, however, that in all his life he ever did a day's work — of actual farm labor,...