The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... continue the agency of Dumas . His intelligence has all these qualities . He is undoubtedly in the confidence of some one who has a part in the Dutch government , & who seems to allow him to communicate to us . Before my arrival here Mr ...
... continue the agency of Dumas . His intelligence has all these qualities . He is undoubtedly in the confidence of some one who has a part in the Dutch government , & who seems to allow him to communicate to us . Before my arrival here Mr ...
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... them 400,000 acres of land , & permit them to continue French subjects . My opinion has been asked , & I have given it , that Congress will make bar- gains with nobody , that they will lay down general 1784 ] 9 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... them 400,000 acres of land , & permit them to continue French subjects . My opinion has been asked , & I have given it , that Congress will make bar- gains with nobody , that they will lay down general 1784 ] 9 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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... continuing this till the present race of seamen should be pretty well out of the way & the younger people betake themselves to husbandry for which their soil & climate is well fitted , these nests of banditti might be reformed . I am ...
... continuing this till the present race of seamen should be pretty well out of the way & the younger people betake themselves to husbandry for which their soil & climate is well fitted , these nests of banditti might be reformed . I am ...
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... continue a while yet but not very long . The Emperor has a head too combustible to be quiet . He is an eccentric character , all enterprise , without calculation , without principle , without feelings . Am- bitious in the extreme but ...
... continue a while yet but not very long . The Emperor has a head too combustible to be quiet . He is an eccentric character , all enterprise , without calculation , without principle , without feelings . Am- bitious in the extreme but ...
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... continue as loud & furious as ever against the Arret of August 1784 , permitting our commerce with their islands to a certain degree . Many of them have actually abandoned their trade . The Ministry are disposed to be firm , but there ...
... continue as loud & furious as ever against the Arret of August 1784 , permitting our commerce with their islands to a certain degree . Many of them have actually abandoned their trade . The Ministry are disposed to be firm , but there ...
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Page 453 - 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 170 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 118 - It is, however, an evil for which there is no remedy: our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Page 466 - Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
Page 254 - 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 320 - In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles : and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare, that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.
Page 107 - Were I to indulge my own theory, I should wish them to practise neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand, with respect to Europe, precisely on the footing of China. We should thus avoid wars, and all our citizens would be husbandmen.
Page 346 - If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions, and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Page 255 - Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Page 171 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.