Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 351 páginas In the American Statesmen Series; often reprinted, influential, and vigorously critical biography from a basically Federalist point of view. -- Frank Shuffelton. |
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... truth is that while no in- telligent man could help contemplating this probable conclusion , all deprecated it , many with more of anxiety than resolution , but not a few with a more daring spirit . In varying moods even the same ...
... truth is that while no in- telligent man could help contemplating this probable conclusion , all deprecated it , many with more of anxiety than resolution , but not a few with a more daring spirit . In varying moods even the same ...
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... truth more to learn , — that , after colonies have drawn the sword , there is but one step more they can take . That step is now pressed upon us by the measures adopted , as if they were afraid we would not take it . Believe me , dear ...
... truth more to learn , — that , after colonies have drawn the sword , there is but one step more they can take . That step is now pressed upon us by the measures adopted , as if they were afraid we would not take it . Believe me , dear ...
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... saved him from giving irritation ; and it is a truth not to be concealed , that there were cabals , bickerings , heart - burnings , perhaps actual enmities among the members of that famous body , which , grandly 34 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... saved him from giving irritation ; and it is a truth not to be concealed , that there were cabals , bickerings , heart - burnings , perhaps actual enmities among the members of that famous body , which , grandly 34 THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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... truth that it was to be asserted dogmatically , and though he so carefully seeks to conceal his own bias , yet one instinctively feels that this letter was not written by a believer . Had he believed , in the proper sense of the word ...
... truth that it was to be asserted dogmatically , and though he so carefully seeks to conceal his own bias , yet one instinctively feels that this letter was not written by a believer . Had he believed , in the proper sense of the word ...
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... truth to say that the impress of his mind was in every part of the volume , and that especially the social legislation was due chiefly to his influence . - - Only in one grave matter — gravest , indeed , of all - he and a few humane and ...
... truth to say that the impress of his mind was in every part of the volume , and that especially the social legislation was due chiefly to his influence . - - Only in one grave matter — gravest , indeed , of all - he and a few humane and ...
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Página 13 - 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 154 - The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Página 33 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.
Página 238 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Página 238 - 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 threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Página 91 - The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Página 327 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.
Página 194 - But if on a temporary superiority of the one party, the other is to resort to a scission of the Union, no federal government can ever exist.
Página 257 - The constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.