The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 |
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... expect that they would tax us at one , two , or perhaps three hundred thousand dollars a year . Surely our people will not give this . Would it not be better to offer them an equal treaty . If they refuse , why not go to war with them ...
... expect that they would tax us at one , two , or perhaps three hundred thousand dollars a year . Surely our people will not give this . Would it not be better to offer them an equal treaty . If they refuse , why not go to war with them ...
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... 60 or 70 guineas more . Say that the whole would be 200 guineas . You will for that have purchased the knowl- edge of another world . I expect Monroe will come in the spring , and return to congress in the 18 [ 1784 THE WRITINGS OF.
... 60 or 70 guineas more . Say that the whole would be 200 guineas . You will for that have purchased the knowl- edge of another world . I expect Monroe will come in the spring , and return to congress in the 18 [ 1784 THE WRITINGS OF.
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... expect peace say also that they have in view the Emperor's char- acter which they represent as whimsical and eccentric , & that he is especially affected in the Dog days . We shall not know what will be done till the spring admits the ...
... expect peace say also that they have in view the Emperor's char- acter which they represent as whimsical and eccentric , & that he is especially affected in the Dog days . We shall not know what will be done till the spring admits the ...
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... expect they will , but it is our business to be on the watch . The Dutch seem to be on the brink of some internal revo- lution , even if they escape being engaged in war , as appearances at present seem to indicate . The divi- sion ...
... expect they will , but it is our business to be on the watch . The Dutch seem to be on the brink of some internal revo- lution , even if they escape being engaged in war , as appearances at present seem to indicate . The divi- sion ...
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... expect it is good , & much hope it , as he may become a valuable & useful citizen .-- I sent you by the former ... expecting the arrival 42 [ 1785 THE WRITINGS OF.
... expect it is good , & much hope it , as he may become a valuable & useful citizen .-- I sent you by the former ... expecting the arrival 42 [ 1785 THE WRITINGS OF.
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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.