Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2F. Carr, and Company, 1829 - 532 pages |
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... nature has fitted our country . To find out these , will require abundance of unsuccess- ful experiments . But if in a multitude of these , we make one useful acquisition , it repays our trouble . Perhaps it is the pecu- liar duty of ...
... nature has fitted our country . To find out these , will require abundance of unsuccess- ful experiments . But if in a multitude of these , we make one useful acquisition , it repays our trouble . Perhaps it is the pecu- liar duty of ...
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... nature of our govern- ments , a State of such extent as one hundred and sixty thousand These are the square miles , would soon crumble into little ones . circumstances which reduce the Indians to such small societies . They would ...
... nature of our govern- ments , a State of such extent as one hundred and sixty thousand These are the square miles , would soon crumble into little ones . circumstances which reduce the Indians to such small societies . They would ...
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... nature not to admit a perfect secrecy . Their Arrets respecting the islands , go to those islands , and are unpublished and unknown in France , except in the bureau where they are formed . That of August , 1784 , would probably be ...
... nature not to admit a perfect secrecy . Their Arrets respecting the islands , go to those islands , and are unpublished and unknown in France , except in the bureau where they are formed . That of August , 1784 , would probably be ...
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... suppose that an amity can be preserved , while this right is withheld . Such a supposition would argue , not only an ignorance of the people to whom this is VOL . II . 6 most interesting , but an ignorance of the nature of 41.
... suppose that an amity can be preserved , while this right is withheld . Such a supposition would argue , not only an ignorance of the people to whom this is VOL . II . 6 most interesting , but an ignorance of the nature of 41.
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... nature of man , or an in- attention to it . Those who see but half way into our true interest , will think that that concurs with the views of the other party . But those who see it in all its extent , will be sensible that our true in ...
... nature of man , or an in- attention to it . Those who see but half way into our true interest , will think that that concurs with the views of the other party . But those who see it in all its extent , will be sensible that our true in ...
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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.