The Germ of Virtue

By Aaron Spuler | April 4, 2012

Dependence 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: Query 19
1787

Thomas Jefferson
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

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