...a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire which might otherwise escape from the earth." That "deposit for substantial and genuine virtue" was public...

...a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth."1 But since practice demanded it, the assumption was made that this sacred fire...

...substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators of the earth is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Such was his favourite text. He repeated it with varying changes, as when he wrote John Jay: "Cultivators...

...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenonj>f wJucuJio_age_...

...surplus of their people. But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. . . . Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit...

...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age...

...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age...

...chosen people whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue [...]. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...of which no age nor nation has furnished an example [...]. The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as scores do to...

...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and germane virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. THOMAS JEFFERSON Introduction In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Texas,...

...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age...