 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 314 pages
...If they approve the proposed Constitution in all its parts, I shall concur in it cheerfully, in the hopes they will amend it whenever they shall find...in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do. From a letter of Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, dated Dec. SO, 1787, Paris. Now, and here, let... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 pages
...be so, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case, while there remains vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. To Madison, Sept. 6, 1789. No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - 1958 - 674 pages
...Jefferson, once wrote : I think we shall be virtuous as long as agriculture is our principal objective. When we get piled upon one another in large cities,...corrupt as in Europe and go to eating one another. We have failed to follow his advice. Another great factor we have been overlooking: In our churches... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - 1958 - 666 pages
...once wrote: . _T think we shall be virtuous as long as agriculture is our principal objective. N ht>n we get piled upon one another in large cities, as...corrupt as in Europe and go to eating one another. \Ve have failed to follow his advice. -Another great factor we have been overlooking: In our churches... | |
 | 1926 - 228 pages
...shall be virtuous as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case as long as there remain vacant lands in any part of America....Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." "If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive... | |
 | Richard Lemon - 1971 - 264 pages
...any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." Throughout their short history, Americans have bestowed more love on their out-of-the-way places than... | |
 | Franklin P. Huddle - 1971 - 76 pages
...of America-^ When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall be-^ 1 come corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." _j Five years earlier, Jefferson had written a short treatise, "Notes on the State of Virginia," in... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1976 - 1382 pages
...be so, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case, while there remains vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled...corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another aa they do there.' Five years earlier, Jefferson had written a short treatise, "Notes on the State... | |
 | Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 pages
...1787: "This reliance cannot deceive us, as long as we remain virtuous; and I think we shall be that, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which...and go to eating one another as they do there."'* By making the American dream of freedom contingent on the unlimited availability of land, Jeffersonian... | |
 | Abram Lincoln Harris - 1989 - 550 pages
...depended upon the preservation of these economic units. "We shall remain virtuous," he wrote Madison, "as long as agriculture is our principal object, which...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." What in Jefferson's estimation threatened to destroy this democracy of small farmers and property holders... | |
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This reliance cannot deceive us, as long as we remain virtuous ; and I think we shall be so, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another... 
