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 2

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Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 4 Seiten
 

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Seite 88 - civil over the military authority: economy in the public expense, that labour may be lightly burthened: the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith: encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce, as its handmaid: the diffusion of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason: freedom of religion, freedom of
Seite 87 - and confidence from our fellow citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions, and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practised in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an over-ruling providence, which by all its
Seite 86 - by some and less by others, and should divide opinions as to measures of safety; but every difference of opinion, is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names, brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans —all federalists.* If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them
Seite 422 - people; are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and selfgoverning association, under the control of no power, other than that of our God, and the general government of Congress: to the maintenance of which independence, we solemnly pledge to each other, our mutual co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honour.
Seite 34 - stated that as fresh instructions had been sent to this gentleman, the negotiation might now be considered to be at an end; and concluded with this declaration, "I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honoured, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation,
Seite 349 - The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure
Seite 354 - was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. 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
Seite 395 - belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book reading; this they would say of
Seite 523 - one or more of these copies be on the paper of the birch, as less liable to injury from damp than common paper. The commerce which may be carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue, renders a knowledge of those people important. You will therefore endeavour to make yourself acquainted, as
Seite 375 - excluded from the ocean, and have thus learnt that to be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them for ourselves. "We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist," and the question is narrowed down to

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