...and our character, which, though quiet, and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury,...friends when they meet in so irritable a position. About the Sculpture —Letter to Robert Livingston, April 18, 1802 Partridge s Jefferson stands relaxed,...

...character placed in a point of eternal friction with us ... render it impossible that France and the US can continue long friends when they meet in so irritable a position." Upon Bonaparte's possession of New Orleans, the president predicted, the United States would have no...

...character, placed in a point of eternal friction with us and our character, are circumstances which render it impossible that France and the United States...friends when they meet in so irritable a position." Here is shown the great primary motive that influenced Jefferson to action. With the Gulf in hostile...