 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.  Public Opinion - 第 264 頁Walter Lippmann 著 - 1922 - 427 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Steven J. Keillor - 2007 - 223 頁
...Thomas Jefferson, "The Philosophy Jefferson hoped for an agrarian, Unitarian republic. "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," he claimed. Western small farmers were his ideal citizens, and Unitarians were to become the religious... | |
 | Christopher Collins - 2010
...farmers bounty and their own dishonest wits. "Those who labor in the earth," wrote Jefferson in 1785, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Corruption has never been associated with "cultivators," he asserts. Then, using another biblical allusion,... | |
 | Trent Watts - 2008 - 280 頁
...generations of eighteenth and nineteenth-century white American men. Jefferson famously wrote that those "who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." "Dependence," which Jefferson equated with the nonownership of land, "begets subservience and venality,... | |
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