Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private CorrespondenceA. Francis and W. Boardman, 1832 - 556 páginas |
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... less charged with in- habitants , and had established there that system of laws which has so long been the glory and protection of that country . Nor was ever any claim of superiority or dependence asserted over them , by that mother ...
... less charged with in- habitants , and had established there that system of laws which has so long been the glory and protection of that country . Nor was ever any claim of superiority or dependence asserted over them , by that mother ...
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... brought forth some new and unjustifiable exertion of power over their subjects on that side the water , it was not to be expected that those here , much less able at that time to oppose the designs of 60 LIFE , WRITINGS , AND OPINIONS.
... brought forth some new and unjustifiable exertion of power over their subjects on that side the water , it was not to be expected that those here , much less able at that time to oppose the designs of 60 LIFE , WRITINGS , AND OPINIONS.
Página 61
... less able at that time to oppose the designs of despotism , should be exempted from injury . Accordingly , this country , which had been acquired by the lives , the labors , and fortunes of individual adven- turers , was by these ...
... less able at that time to oppose the designs of despotism , should be exempted from injury . Accordingly , this country , which had been acquired by the lives , the labors , and fortunes of individual adven- turers , was by these ...
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... less for what we carry thith- er , than might be had at more convenient ports . That these acts prohibit us from carrying , in quest of other purchasers , the surplus of our tobaccos , remaining after the consumption of Great Britain is ...
... less for what we carry thith- er , than might be had at more convenient ports . That these acts prohibit us from carrying , in quest of other purchasers , the surplus of our tobaccos , remaining after the consumption of Great Britain is ...
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... less alarming , because repeated at more distant intervals , than that rapid and bold succession of injuries , which is likely to distinguish . the present from all other periods of American story . Scarcely have our minds been able to ...
... less alarming , because repeated at more distant intervals , than that rapid and bold succession of injuries , which is likely to distinguish . the present from all other periods of American story . Scarcely have our minds been able to ...
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Página 164 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of Fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 136 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Página 545 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Página 36 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 454 - I believe this on the contrary the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Página 160 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Página 401 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 402 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Página 505 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Página 403 - ... these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.