The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Mack & Andrus, 1834 - 267 páginas |
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... citizens for publick life , and his country would not permit him to remain in a private station , or attend to ordinary affairs ; their hopes and desires already pointed to him , and their interests directed his aim to higher objects ...
... citizens for publick life , and his country would not permit him to remain in a private station , or attend to ordinary affairs ; their hopes and desires already pointed to him , and their interests directed his aim to higher objects ...
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... a deadly stab at the most sacred rights of the citizen , and as demanding the attention of the legislature of Virginia . The subject was taken up and considered at the spring session of 1773. Os LIFE OF JEFFERSON . 15.
... a deadly stab at the most sacred rights of the citizen , and as demanding the attention of the legislature of Virginia . The subject was taken up and considered at the spring session of 1773. Os LIFE OF JEFFERSON . 15.
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... citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . # He has [ excited domestick insurrections among us , and has ] ...
... citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . # He has [ excited domestick insurrections among us , and has ] ...
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... citizens , with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property . This " He has waged cruel war against human nature itself , violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who ...
... citizens , with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property . This " He has waged cruel war against human nature itself , violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who ...
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... citizens . But this repeal was strongly opposed by Mr. Pendleton , who was zealous- ly attached to ancient establishments ; and who , taken all in all , was the ablest man in debate I have ever met with . He had not , indeed , the ...
... citizens . But this repeal was strongly opposed by Mr. Pendleton , who was zealous- ly attached to ancient establishments ; and who , taken all in all , was the ablest man in debate I have ever met with . He had not , indeed , the ...
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Página 49 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 49 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 49 - ... and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which HE has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Página 223 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Página 223 - I despair did not the presence of many whom 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...
Página 62 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Página 169 - I will now tell you what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land, and not by the laws of nations.
Página 225 - The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment: they should be the creed of our political faith ; the text of civic instruction; the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
Página 257 - May it be to the world what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Página 257 - 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.