Thomas Jefferson quote about virtue from Notes on the State of Virginia - Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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“ 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

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Author Thomas Jefferson
Source Notes on the State of Virginia
Topic virtue ambition venality
Date 1785
Language English
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Thomas Jefferson quote about virtue from Notes on the State of Virginia - Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson quote about virtue from Notes on the State of Virginia - Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.