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, Band 2C. Knight, 1837 |
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... nation , as well as from the almost equal vote for the first , had on his happy temper the effect of putting him in a good humour with all the world . It was in this spirit of benignity and good feeling that he wrote the letter to Mr ...
... nation , as well as from the almost equal vote for the first , had on his happy temper the effect of putting him in a good humour with all the world . It was in this spirit of benignity and good feeling that he wrote the letter to Mr ...
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... nation felt by the American people . The very circumstance that the subjects of Great Britain , priding themselves ... nations , descended from the same stock , having the same language , religion and laws , and not alien in interest ...
... nation felt by the American people . The very circumstance that the subjects of Great Britain , priding themselves ... nations , descended from the same stock , having the same language , religion and laws , and not alien in interest ...
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... nation ; and the known partiality which one party felt for England , and the other for France , and the correspondent hatred for their enemies , gave but too much colour to these recriminations . The sympathies of our citizens for the ...
... nation ; and the known partiality which one party felt for England , and the other for France , and the correspondent hatred for their enemies , gave but too much colour to these recriminations . The sympathies of our citizens for the ...
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... nation stand surety for their justice , and their own loss to follow injury to us , as effect follows its cause . As to everything except commerce , we ought to divorce ourselves from them all . " It is impossible to reconcile the ...
... nation stand surety for their justice , and their own loss to follow injury to us , as effect follows its cause . As to everything except commerce , we ought to divorce ourselves from them all . " It is impossible to reconcile the ...
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... nation could fully understand , produced more effect on the republican party among the people than in the legislature , where the motives , both personal and political , for adhering to the ground they have taken , are so much more ...
... nation could fully understand , produced more effect on the republican party among the people than in the legislature , where the motives , both personal and political , for adhering to the ground they have taken , are so much more ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 75 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...