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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... independent Convention , agreed to an association , more solemnly than ever , against the calamitous revenue system ; declared , boldly , that an attack on any one Colony , to compel submission to arbitrary taxes , should be considered ...
... independent Convention , agreed to an association , more solemnly than ever , against the calamitous revenue system ; declared , boldly , that an attack on any one Colony , to compel submission to arbitrary taxes , should be considered ...
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... independently to all . To represent to His Ma- jesty that these , his States , have often individually made humble application to his Imperial throne , to obtain , through its interven- tion , some redress of their injured rights ; to ...
... independently to all . To represent to His Ma- jesty that these , his States , have often individually made humble application to his Imperial throne , to obtain , through its interven- tion , some redress of their injured rights ; to ...
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... independent governments ; a measure , which , it is believed , His Majesty's prudence and understanding would prevent him from im- itating at this day ; as no exercise of such power , of dividing and dismembering a country , has ever ...
... independent governments ; a measure , which , it is believed , His Majesty's prudence and understanding would prevent him from im- itating at this day ; as no exercise of such power , of dividing and dismembering a country , has ever ...
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... independent Legislature hereby takes upon itself to suspend the powers of another , free and independent as itself . Thus exhibiting a phenomenon unknown in nature , the creator and creature of its own power . Not only the principles of ...
... independent Legislature hereby takes upon itself to suspend the powers of another , free and independent as itself . Thus exhibiting a phenomenon unknown in nature , the creator and creature of its own power . Not only the principles of ...
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... independent States . We fight not for glo- ry or for conquest . We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spec- tacle , of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies , without any im- putation or even suspicion of offence . They boast of their ...
... independent States . We fight not for glo- ry or for conquest . We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spec- tacle , of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies , without any im- putation or even suspicion of offence . They boast of their ...
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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.