Master Thoughts of Thomas JeffersonNation Press, 1907 - 196 páginas |
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... courses of preparation take time , and the former must precede the latter but it will yield · in time to temperate and steady pursuit , to the enlarge- ment of the human mind and the advancement of science . We are not in a world ...
... courses of preparation take time , and the former must precede the latter but it will yield · in time to temperate and steady pursuit , to the enlarge- ment of the human mind and the advancement of science . We are not in a world ...
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... course which I think safest and best Consolidation the next book of their history they now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy , founded on banking institu- tions , and moneyed corporations under the guise and ...
... course which I think safest and best Consolidation the next book of their history they now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy , founded on banking institu- tions , and moneyed corporations under the guise and ...
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... course of life . To place our friends at ease we show them that we are so ourselves , by pursuing the necessary vocations of the day and enjoying their company at the usual hours of society . 19. 209 . I HAVE come to a resolution myself ...
... course of life . To place our friends at ease we show them that we are so ourselves , by pursuing the necessary vocations of the day and enjoying their company at the usual hours of society . 19. 209 . I HAVE come to a resolution myself ...
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... course generally , they would do in a day what takes them a week ; and it is really more questionable than may at first be thought , whether Bonaparte's dumb legislature , which said nothing , and did much , may not be preferable to one ...
... course generally , they would do in a day what takes them a week ; and it is really more questionable than may at first be thought , whether Bonaparte's dumb legislature , which said nothing , and did much , may not be preferable to one ...
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... course I meant to pursue by that which I had pursued hitherto , believing it my duty to be passive and silent during the present scene ; that I should certainly make no terms ; should never go into the office of President by ...
... course I meant to pursue by that which I had pursued hitherto , believing it my duty to be passive and silent during the present scene ; that I should certainly make no terms ; should never go into the office of President by ...
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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...