“ Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ”
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785). copy citation
Author | Thomas Jefferson |
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Source | Notes on the State of Virginia |
Topic | virtue ambition venality |
Date | 1785 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/jefferson/jefferson.html |