The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Том 2C. Knight, 1837 |
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... probably have restored the confidence and friendly feelings of France . In short , encouraged by the known partiality of the American people , nothing would have satisfied France apparently , but war against Great Bri- tain and her ...
... probably have restored the confidence and friendly feelings of France . In short , encouraged by the known partiality of the American people , nothing would have satisfied France apparently , but war against Great Bri- tain and her ...
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... probably entered on the duties of his new office with more unmixed satisfaction than if he had been chosen chief magistrate , beset as it was with difficulties and dangers ; and the gratification afforded by the second office in the ...
... probably entered on the duties of his new office with more unmixed satisfaction than if he had been chosen chief magistrate , beset as it was with difficulties and dangers ; and the gratification afforded by the second office in the ...
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... probably , by a majority of only four or five . Their plan is to have convoys furnished for our vessels going to Europe , and smaller vessels for the coasting defence . " This decree , he says , operated on the merchants as a sedative ...
... probably , by a majority of only four or five . Their plan is to have convoys furnished for our vessels going to Europe , and smaller vessels for the coasting defence . " This decree , he says , operated on the merchants as a sedative ...
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... probably another and yet stronger motive was to excite a livelier apprehension of its dangers and mischiefs , by these legislative provisions against them , and thus to increase the popular odium already strongly felt against the law ...
... probably another and yet stronger motive was to excite a livelier apprehension of its dangers and mischiefs , by these legislative provisions against them , and thus to increase the popular odium already strongly felt against the law ...
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... probably , to prove , in the end , the same fleeting shadow and illusion . Such persons can no more be deprived of this their happy credulity , than they can be prevented from believing in the reality of their dreams by having found all ...
... probably , to prove , in the end , the same fleeting shadow and illusion . Such persons can no more be deprived of this their happy credulity , than they can be prevented from believing in the reality of their dreams by having found all ...
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Страница 91 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others ? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Страница 90 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a. political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Страница 92 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Страница 91 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Страница 77 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Страница 541 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Страница 425 - We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Страница 160 - The constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Страница 505 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should, therefore, have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Страница 379 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known; no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. Ho was, indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a...