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 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 4 Seiten |
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... grounds of complaint against the adminis- tration was , their want of attachment to France , and their lean- ing towards England , it was natural for the French government to adopt the same feelings , if from no other motive , for the ...
... grounds of complaint against the adminis- tration was , their want of attachment to France , and their lean- ing towards England , it was natural for the French government to adopt the same feelings , if from no other motive , for the ...
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... ground perfectly neutral and independent towards all nations . It has been my constant object throughout public life : and with respect to the English and French , particularly , I have too often expressed to the for- mer my wishes ...
... ground perfectly neutral and independent towards all nations . It has been my constant object throughout public life : and with respect to the English and French , particularly , I have too often expressed to the for- mer my wishes ...
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... ground - impossible for a free mind not to see and to groan under the bondage to which it is bound . If any thing after this could excite surprise , it would be that they have been able so far to throw dust in the eyes of our own ...
... ground - impossible for a free mind not to see and to groan under the bondage to which it is bound . If any thing after this could excite surprise , it would be that they have been able so far to throw dust in the eyes of our own ...
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... ground they have taken are so much more numerous and cogent ; and a majority of the nation , forgetting party attach- ments in the love of country , were ready to vindicate their in- sulted dignity by war if it should be necessary ...
... ground they have taken are so much more numerous and cogent ; and a majority of the nation , forgetting party attach- ments in the love of country , were ready to vindicate their in- sulted dignity by war if it should be necessary ...
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... grounds to expect that the objects of their mission could be accomplished , consistent with the honour and interests of the nation ; he therefore renewed his recommendation to put the country in a state of defence , by providing ...
... grounds to expect that the objects of their mission could be accomplished , consistent with the honour and interests of the nation ; he therefore renewed his recommendation to put the country in a state of defence , by providing ...
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Seite 74 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 482 - to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.