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, Svazek 2C. Knight, 1837 |
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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 be- coming an arena of gladiators . " Party spirit , which had been increasing in bitterness for the last four or five years , notwithstanding the check it re- ceived ...
... hope , and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from be- coming an arena of gladiators . " Party spirit , which had been increasing in bitterness for the last four or five years , notwithstanding the check it re- ceived ...
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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 our- selves of the calm of peace to place our foreign connexions 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 our- selves of the calm of peace to place our foreign connexions 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 mani- fested throughout his life . It made him confident of success in the American revolution , and overlook or underrate the chances ...
... hope where those of a different temperament would have desponded . This feature of his character was mani- fested throughout his life . It made him confident of success in the American revolution , and overlook or underrate the chances ...
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Strana 75 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Strana 431 - ... progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. 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.
Strana 88 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. 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.
Strana 88 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers...
Strana 513 - 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.
Strana 383 - 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.
Strana 430 - 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.
Strana 89 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Strana 105 - 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.
Strana 158 - 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. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they...