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, المجلد 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 4 من الصفحات |
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... neutral and independent towards all nations . It has been my constant object throughout public life : and with respect to the English and French , particularly , I have too often expressed to the for- mer my wishes , and made to them ...
... neutral and independent towards all nations . It has been my constant object throughout public life : and with respect to the English and French , particularly , I have too often expressed to the for- mer my wishes , and made to them ...
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... re- marks , " the most respectable character in the universe . What the neutral nations think of us now , I know not ; but we are low indeed with the belligerents . Their kicks and cuffs prove THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON . 23.
... re- marks , " the most respectable character in the universe . What the neutral nations think of us now , I know not ; but we are low indeed with the belligerents . Their kicks and cuffs prove THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON . 23.
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... neutral powers , whenever they can thereby do the least injury , either to the other . But as I view a peace be- tween France and England the ensuing winter to be certain , 1 have thought it would have been better for us to have con ...
... neutral powers , whenever they can thereby do the least injury , either to the other . But as I view a peace be- tween France and England the ensuing winter to be certain , 1 have thought it would have been better for us to have con ...
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... neutral temper is the safest . Sailing on an unruffled sea , if the voyage of these quietists is slow , and often tedious , it is secure from storms and shipwreck . Theirs is the small traffic in the emotions , which though it may not ...
... neutral temper is the safest . Sailing on an unruffled sea , if the voyage of these quietists is slow , and often tedious , it is secure from storms and shipwreck . Theirs is the small traffic in the emotions , which though it may not ...
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... neutral rights , and continue it to this day . Yet not a word of these things is said officially to the legislature . " Indeed it was evident , not merely from the liberation of Ameri- can prisoners at Guadaloupe , but the whole course ...
... neutral rights , and continue it to this day . Yet not a word of these things is said officially to the legislature . " Indeed it was evident , not merely from the liberation of Ameri- can prisoners at Guadaloupe , but the whole course ...
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الصفحة 74 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
الصفحة 88 - 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.
الصفحة 389 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
الصفحة 88 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?
الصفحة 87 - 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.
الصفحة 482 - to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...
الصفحة 147 - 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.
الصفحة 215 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
الصفحة 101 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few ; by resignation, none. Can any other mode than that of removal be proposed ? This is a painful office ; but it is made my duty, and I meet it as such.
الصفحة 343 - ... been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.