The Best Letters of Thomas JeffersonHoughton Mifflin Company, 1926 - 300 Seiten |
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... existed between us , required this explanation from me , and I know you too well to fear any misconstruction of the motives of it . Some people here , who would wish me to be , or to be thought , guilty of improprieties , have suggested ...
... existed between us , required this explanation from me , and I know you too well to fear any misconstruction of the motives of it . Some people here , who would wish me to be , or to be thought , guilty of improprieties , have suggested ...
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... existed between us , required this explanation from me , and I know you too well to fear any misconstruction of the motives of it . Some people here , who would wish me to be , or to be thought , guilty of improprieties , have suggested ...
... existed between us , required this explanation from me , and I know you too well to fear any misconstruction of the motives of it . Some people here , who would wish me to be , or to be thought , guilty of improprieties , have suggested ...
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... existed in any man's mind , short of the degree of absolute re- fusal . The only view on which I would have gone THE VICE - PRESIDENCY 89 into it for awhile was 88 LETTERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAMES MADISON, JANUARY 1, 1797.
... existed in any man's mind , short of the degree of absolute re- fusal . The only view on which I would have gone THE VICE - PRESIDENCY 89 into it for awhile was 88 LETTERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAMES MADISON, JANUARY 1, 1797.
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... full calculation , could have existed in any man's mind , short of the degree of absolute re- fusal . The only view on which I would have gone THE VICE - PRESIDENCY 89 into it for awhile was 88 LETTERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.
... full calculation , could have existed in any man's mind , short of the degree of absolute re- fusal . The only view on which I would have gone THE VICE - PRESIDENCY 89 into it for awhile was 88 LETTERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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... existed , from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry ; seeing that we must have some- body to quarrel with , I had rather keep our New England associates for that purpose , than to see our bickerings ...
... existed , from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry ; seeing that we must have some- body to quarrel with , I had rather keep our New England associates for that purpose , than to see our bickerings ...
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Seite 54 - 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.
Seite 57 - ... the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Seite x - ... to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness...
Seite 103 - His mind was great and powerful without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite xxiii - First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations.
Seite 118 - 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.
Seite 55 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Seite 65 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. We must turn all our attention to a maritime force...
Seite 121 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.
Seite ix - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who, being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do...
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