Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph1829 |
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... ment being abandoned by this government , it might be thought worth while to transfer it to the United States , on conditions somewhat like those he has talked of . I have the honour to be , with sentiments of the most per- fect esteem ...
... ment being abandoned by this government , it might be thought worth while to transfer it to the United States , on conditions somewhat like those he has talked of . I have the honour to be , with sentiments of the most per- fect esteem ...
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... ment by government might affect the bankers a little , I doubt if any of them have embarked so much in the hands of govern- ment as to endanger failure , and especially as they have had such long warning . You will have known , that the ...
... ment by government might affect the bankers a little , I doubt if any of them have embarked so much in the hands of govern- ment as to endanger failure , and especially as they have had such long warning . You will have known , that the ...
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... ment inexpedient . I have the honour to be , with great esteem , Dear Sir , Your most obedient and most humble servant , TH . JEFFERSON . DEAR SIR , TO WILLIAM SHORT . New York , July 26 , 1790 . My public letters to you have been of ...
... ment inexpedient . I have the honour to be , with great esteem , Dear Sir , Your most obedient and most humble servant , TH . JEFFERSON . DEAR SIR , TO WILLIAM SHORT . New York , July 26 , 1790 . My public letters to you have been of ...
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... ment , on the facts , true or false , with which she comes charged . For communications of a secret nature , you will avail yourself of other conveyances , and you will be enabled to judge which are best by the preceding statement ...
... ment , on the facts , true or false , with which she comes charged . For communications of a secret nature , you will avail yourself of other conveyances , and you will be enabled to judge which are best by the preceding statement ...
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... ment . I am , with sincere and great esteem , Dear Sir , Your most obedient humble servant , TH . JEFFERSON . TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS . SIR , Philadelphia , December 17 , 1790 . Since mine to you of August the 12th , yours of July the 3rd ...
... ment . I am , with sincere and great esteem , Dear Sir , Your most obedient humble servant , TH . JEFFERSON . TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS . SIR , Philadelphia , December 17 , 1790 . Since mine to you of August the 12th , yours of July the 3rd ...
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Page 131 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page 298 - But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Page 298 - We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Page 298 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored 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 :...
Page 521 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they...
Page 391 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world. With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Page 298 - ... Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored 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 bookreading;...
Page 287 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 332 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Page 232 - And indeed, it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?