Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence
Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX, 'Manufactures'
1785
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