The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture at New OrleansTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... yourselves also will be guided by your own view in the legislative provisions respecting them which may from time to time be necessary . They are preserved in such condition , as well the vessels as whatever belongs to them , as to be ...
... yourselves also will be guided by your own view in the legislative provisions respecting them which may from time to time be necessary . They are preserved in such condition , as well the vessels as whatever belongs to them , as to be ...
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... yourselves , and in all communications with your constituents ; and I anticipate with satisfaction the measures of wisdom which the great interests now committed to you will give you an opportunity of providing , and myself that of ap ...
... yourselves , and in all communications with your constituents ; and I anticipate with satisfaction the measures of wisdom which the great interests now committed to you will give you an opportunity of providing , and myself that of ap ...
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... yourselves and your religious association , assurances of my high respect and esteem . TO WILLIAM JUDD , ESQUIRE , CHAIRMAN . WASHINGTON , November 15 , 1802 . Expressions of confidence from the respectable description of my fellow ...
... yourselves and your religious association , assurances of my high respect and esteem . TO WILLIAM JUDD , ESQUIRE , CHAIRMAN . WASHINGTON , November 15 , 1802 . Expressions of confidence from the respectable description of my fellow ...
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... yourselves the blessings of His protection and favor . TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE , AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MASSACHUSETTS . WASHINGTON , February 14 , 1807 . GENTLEMEN , -I acknowledge , in the first moment it ...
... yourselves the blessings of His protection and favor . TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE , AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MASSACHUSETTS . WASHINGTON , February 14 , 1807 . GENTLEMEN , -I acknowledge , in the first moment it ...
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... yourselves my friendly and respectful salutations . TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA . January 10 , 1808 . The wrongs our country has suffered , fellow citizens , by vio- lations of those moral rules which the Author of our ...
... yourselves my friendly and respectful salutations . TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA . January 10 , 1808 . The wrongs our country has suffered , fellow citizens , by vio- lations of those moral rules which the Author of our ...
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Página 4 - ... 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; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 4 - ... the diffusion of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason ; freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected ; — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 2 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 311 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 382 - Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.
Página 362 - ... bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Página 2 - I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To you then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked amidst the conflicting elements of a troubled world.
Página 3 - 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.
Página 5 - The approbation implied by your suffrage is a consolation to me for the past; and my future solicitude will be to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all. Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make....
Página 353 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.