Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2F. Carr, and Company, 1829 - 532 pages |
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... affairs , and in the course of the conversation , told me , that were America to petition par- liament to be again received on their former footing , the petition would be very generally rejected . He was serious in this , and I think ...
... affairs , and in the course of the conversation , told me , that were America to petition par- liament to be again received on their former footing , the petition would be very generally rejected . He was serious in this , and I think ...
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... affairs between England and the United States : and parti- cularly , on their refusal to deliver up our posts . I observed to him , that the obstructions thrown in the way of the recovery of their debts , were the effect , and not the ...
... affairs between England and the United States : and parti- cularly , on their refusal to deliver up our posts . I observed to him , that the obstructions thrown in the way of the recovery of their debts , were the effect , and not the ...
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... affairs , the Congress has not been able to assemble more than seven or eight States during the whole winter , so the treaty with Prussia remains still unratified , though there is no doubt of its being done soon , as a full Congress is ...
... affairs , the Congress has not been able to assemble more than seven or eight States during the whole winter , so the treaty with Prussia remains still unratified , though there is no doubt of its being done soon , as a full Congress is ...
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... affairs , have accepted even a primary appointment . I think it evident , that no appointment could have succeeded without a much greater sum of money . I am happy to find that Mr. Barclay's mission has been attend- ed with complete ...
... affairs , have accepted even a primary appointment . I think it evident , that no appointment could have succeeded without a much greater sum of money . I am happy to find that Mr. Barclay's mission has been attend- ed with complete ...
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... affairs through the channel of the public papers , and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people . The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people , the very first object should be to keep ...
... affairs through the channel of the public papers , and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people . The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people , the very first object should be to keep ...
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Page 87 - I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Page 425 - I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction, is the last degradation of a free and moral agent . If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Page 263 - This reliance cannot deceive us, as long as we remain virtuous ; and I think we shall be so, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.
Page 254 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 45 - I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness.
Page 365 - Vice-Consuls, for the search, seizure, and arrest of the said deserters, who shall even be detained and kept in the prisons of the country at their request and expense, until they shall have found opportunity of sending them back.
Page 262 - The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in...
Page 261 - Smaller objections are, the appeals on matters of fact as well as laws; and the binding all persons, legislative, executive, and judiciary by oath, to maintain that constitution. I do not pretend to decide, what would be the best method of procuring the establishment of the manifold good things in this constitution, and of getting rid of the bad. Whether by adopting it, in hopes of future amendment; or after it...
Page 260 - ... yet this evil does not weigh against the good of preserving inviolate the fundamental principle that the people are not to be taxed but by representatives chosen immediately by themselves. I am captivated by the compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little states, of the latter to equal, and the former to proportional influence.
Page 85 - The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.