436 67. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view; nor bring injury on the individual. 68. I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect freedom. 69. I had ever fondly cherished the interests of the West, relying on it as a barrier against the degeneracy of public opinion from our original and free principles. 70. Neither natural right nor reason subjects the body of a man to restraint for debt. 71. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves. 72. My principle is to do whatever is right and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them. 73 No man on earth has stronger detestation of the unprincipled tyrant Bonaparte than myself. 74. Nothing betrays imbecility so much as being insensible of it. 75. I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. 76. I never yet saw a native American begging in the streets or highways. 77. The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I. 78 I hope and firmly believe that the whole world will sooner or later feel benefit from the issue of our assertions of the rights of man. 79. The will of the majority honestly expressed should give law. 80. I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. 81. Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle ourselves in the toils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. 82. No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as of duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. 83. Having seen the people of all other nations bow down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished the opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of the public debt. 84. I have no fear but that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. 85. To inform the minds of the people and to follow their will is the chief duty of those placed at their head. 86. I have such reliance on the good sense of the body of the people and the honesty of their leaders that I am not afraid of their letting things go wrong to any length in any cause. 438 87. We wish not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country. Peace with all nations and the right which that peace gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. 88 I have no inclination to govern men. 89. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debt as it goes. 90. It ought to be supplicated from heaven by the prayers of the whole world that at length there may be on earth peace and good will toward men. INDEX. [References are to Pages.] A ACADEMY, NATIONAL, proposed, 133. ADAMS, JOHN, his estimate of Jefferson, 13. on committee with Jefferson, 14. on committee to draft Declaration of Independence, 17. elected President, 66. overtures to Jefferson, 67. threatens France, 68. changes policy towards France, 77. reconciliation with Jefferson, 121. dies on the day on which Jefferson dies, 132. his vanity and honesty, 133. his unrepublicanism, 133. felicitations and esteem for, 134. contrasted with Hamilton, 239. a friend of monarchy, 307. ADAMS, JOHN, MRS., condoles with Jefferson, 100. ADAMS, SAMUEL, a tried republican, 134. AFFLICTION, all forms of experienced, 135. AGRICULTURE, the noblest occupation, 135. the hope of the State, 136. the most desirable occupation, 137. ALBEMARLE RESOLUTIONS, ALIEN after expatriation, 213. [References are to Pages.] ALIEN ACT, passed, 72. injurious to Federalist party, 78. declared void, 285. ALIEN AND SEDITION LAWS, 137, 138. ALLIANCES, danger of foreign, 138. AMBASSADORS, President to decide their grade and where they should be sent, 138. AMBITION, eradicated, 369. AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION, method of, 138. AMERICA, not dependent upon Britain, 256. ANARCHY, English reports of, 139. "ANAS," Jefferson's purpose in writing, 43. ANIMALS, the law of their growth, 139. APOCALYPSE, opinion of, 139. APPOINTMENT TO OFFICE, 322-325, 429. APPROBATION, 140, 250, 433. ARISTOCRACY, false, 140. of talent, 141. its evil effect, 141. ARMS, would be extended by order of the Cincinnati, 154. coat of, 142. right of freemen to bear, 142. for American States, 192. ARMY, standing, a menace, 348. ARNOLD, BENEDICT, invades Virginia, 29. ARTISANS, dangerous to liberty, 137. |