Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever…

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

Notes on the State of Virginia · 1785

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Topic

Salt of the earth Farmers

Genre

Political literature

Time

1785

Person

Thomas Jefferson

Provenance

Current citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia, edited by Frank Shuffelton. Penguin Classics, 1998, query 19.

Original citation

Jefferson, Thomas [published anonymously]. Notes on the State of Virginia. Paris: Philippe Denis Pierres, 1785, query 19.

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