 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
 | Rebecca Starr - 2000 - 304 頁
...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... | |
 | Adam D. Sheingate - 2003 - 300 頁
...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... | |
 | Francis Graham Wilson, H. Lee Cheek, Jr., M. Susan Power, Kathy B. Cheek - 282 頁
...belief in the agrarian mode of life as contrasted with the kind of urban life he witnessed in Europe. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God; let our workshops remain in Europe. The argument must center, however, on later statements. In the... | |
 | Andrei Cherny - 2008 - 290 頁
...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.... | |
 | Bill Lambrecht - 2002 - 408 頁
...between people and the land that has been revered since this nation began. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." When Harry S Truman left his family farm in Grandview, Missouri, for Washington, his mother praised... | |
 | Frederick V. Carstensen - 2002 - 184 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...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... | |
 | Donald H. Parkerson - 2002 - 220 頁
...yeoman who provided the backbone of American society and democracy. For Jefferson it was very simple: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God ... while ... the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores... | |
 | David J. Walbert - 2002 - 274 頁
...Lancaster County, 1997. Photograph by the author. founding. From Thomas Jefferson's proclamation that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," to the agrarian republicanism of early proslavery thinkers, to the antebellum Republican hope that... | |
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