Master Thoughts of Thomas JeffersonNation Press, 1907 - 196 páginas |
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... considering numbers , nature , and natural means , only a revolution of the wheel of fortune , an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become prob- able by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no ...
... considering numbers , nature , and natural means , only a revolution of the wheel of fortune , an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become prob- able by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no ...
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... considering , said " he saw no possibility of con- tinuing the Union of the States ; that their dissolution must necessarily take place ; that he therefore saw no propriety in recommending to New England men to promote a literary ...
... considering , said " he saw no possibility of con- tinuing the Union of the States ; that their dissolution must necessarily take place ; that he therefore saw no propriety in recommending to New England men to promote a literary ...
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... consider as the most precious gift of nature , for the instruction , the trusts , the government of society . And , indeed , it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for social state , and not to have provided ...
... consider as the most precious gift of nature , for the instruction , the trusts , the government of society . And , indeed , it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for social state , and not to have provided ...
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... consider the will of the majority enounced by the majority of a single vote , as sacred as if unanimous , is the first of all les- sons in importance , yet the last which is thoroughly learned . 15. 127 . T NO SPECIAL legislation we are ...
... consider the will of the majority enounced by the majority of a single vote , as sacred as if unanimous , is the first of all les- sons in importance , yet the last which is thoroughly learned . 15. 127 . T NO SPECIAL legislation we are ...
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... consider it as either desirable or useful for the public ; but only that , like religious differences , a dif- ference in politics should never be permitted to enter into social intercourse , or to disturb its friendships , its chari ...
... consider it as either desirable or useful for the public ; but only that , like religious differences , a dif- ference in politics should never be permitted to enter into social intercourse , or to disturb its friendships , its chari ...
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Página 153 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Página 27 - All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression.
Página 82 - 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 3 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 153 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Página 3 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 186 - Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Página 117 - 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.
Página 129 - Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable"! citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds.
Página 4 - 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? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country...