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 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 4 страница |
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... hope it will be avoided . I do not believe Mr. Adams wishes war with France ; nor do I believe he will truckle to England as servilely as has been done . If he assumes this front at once , and shows that he means to attend to self ...
... hope it will be avoided . I do not believe Mr. Adams wishes war with France ; nor do I believe he will truckle to England as servilely as has been done . If he assumes this front at once , and shows that he means to attend to self ...
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... hope , and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators . " Party spirit , which had been increasing in bitterness for the last four or five years , notwithstanding the check it received from ...
... hope , and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators . " Party spirit , which had been increasing in bitterness for the last four or five years , notwithstanding the check it received from ...
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... hope for salvation : he adds , " But will that region ever awake to the true state of things ? Can the middle , southern , and western states hold on till they awake ? These are painful and doubtful questions : and if , in assuring me ...
... hope for salvation : he adds , " But will that region ever awake to the true state of things ? Can the middle , southern , and western states hold on till they awake ? These are painful and doubtful questions : and if , in assuring me ...
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... hope we shall avail ourselves of the calm of peace to place our foreign con- nexions under a new and different arrangement . We must make the interest of every nation stand surety for their justice , and their own loss to follow injury ...
... hope we shall avail ourselves of the calm of peace to place our foreign con- nexions under a new and different arrangement . We must make the interest of every nation stand surety for their justice , and their own loss to follow injury ...
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... hope where those of a different temperament would have desponded . This feature of his character was manifested throughout his life . It made him confident of success in the American revolution , and overlook or underrate the chances of ...
... hope where those of a different temperament would have desponded . This feature of his character was manifested throughout his life . It made him confident of success in the American revolution , and overlook or underrate the chances of ...
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Страница 74 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 482 - to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.