The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... characters , but that his sentiments should be conveyed to the government of Spain itself , through you . We love and we value peace ; we know its blessings from ex- perience . We abhor the follies of war , and are not untried in its ...
... characters , but that his sentiments should be conveyed to the government of Spain itself , through you . We love and we value peace ; we know its blessings from ex- perience . We abhor the follies of war , and are not untried in its ...
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... character of the writers , displayed in the peculiarity of the style of their communications , and therefore , we have removed the cause from them to their sovereign , in whose justice and love of peace we have confi- dence . If we are ...
... character of the writers , displayed in the peculiarity of the style of their communications , and therefore , we have removed the cause from them to their sovereign , in whose justice and love of peace we have confi- dence . If we are ...
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... by their enemies , is certainly not favorable to the character of the latter . We feel for it as much as for the extension of it to our own citizens , their companions , and find in it a motive the more CORRESPONDENCE . 25.
... by their enemies , is certainly not favorable to the character of the latter . We feel for it as much as for the extension of it to our own citizens , their companions , and find in it a motive the more CORRESPONDENCE . 25.
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... character and conduct so un- expected and so extraordinary , as to place us in the most distress- ing dilemma , between our regard for his nation , which is con- stant and sincere , and a regard for our laws , the authority of which ...
... character and conduct so un- expected and so extraordinary , as to place us in the most distress- ing dilemma , between our regard for his nation , which is con- stant and sincere , and a regard for our laws , the authority of which ...
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... character of Minister Plenipotentiary from his nation to the United States , and soon after , that he had sent on to Philadelphia the vessel in which he came , and would himself perform the journey by land . His landing at one of the ...
... character of Minister Plenipotentiary from his nation to the United States , and soon after , that he had sent on to Philadelphia the vessel in which he came , and would himself perform the journey by land . His landing at one of the ...
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Page 334 - I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Page 429 - It completely reverses all the political relations of the United States, and will form a new epoch in our political course.
Page 138 - ... the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short, we are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils. But we shall preserve it; and our mass of weight and wealth on the good side is so great, as to leave no danger that force will ever be attempted against us. We have only to awake and snap the Lilliputian cords with which they have been entangling us during the first sleep which succeeded our labors.
Page 430 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 290 - According to these bases, you were right to assert that whatever plenipotentiary the Government of the United States might send to France to put an end to the existing differences between the two countries would be undoubtedly received with the respect due to the representative of a free, independent, and powerful nation.
Page 329 - Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.
Page 501 - Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States ; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.
Page 451 - If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Page 138 - Congress have risen," writes he. "You will have seen by their proceedings the truth of what I always observed to you, that one man outweighs them all in the influence over the people, who have supported his judgment against their own and that of their representatives. Republicanism must lie on its oars, resign the vessel to its pilot, and themselves to what course he thinks best for them.
Page 498 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union.