The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Volumen2C. Knight, 1837 |
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... passing his time - how far successful . Pecuniary difficulties , and their cause . His studies . Address from the Legislature of New York . Orders the dismission of a prosecution for a libel against him . Mr. Erskine's arrangement - its ...
... passing his time - how far successful . Pecuniary difficulties , and their cause . His studies . Address from the Legislature of New York . Orders the dismission of a prosecution for a libel against him . Mr. Erskine's arrangement - its ...
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... passed a law for punishing all libellous writings against the public authorities , and another for sending away all aliens who should be deemed suspicious by the government . The effect of these two last laws was eventually sufficient ...
... passed a law for punishing all libellous writings against the public authorities , and another for sending away all aliens who should be deemed suspicious by the government . The effect of these two last laws was eventually sufficient ...
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... passed at the pre- vious Congress , as the federal party by the conduct of the French govern- ment . Yet Mr. Jefferson was so guarded in his conduct and expressions as to obtain at the time the character of unusual moderation among his ...
... passed at the pre- vious Congress , as the federal party by the conduct of the French govern- ment . Yet Mr. Jefferson was so guarded in his conduct and expressions as to obtain at the time the character of unusual moderation among his ...
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... passed at the preceding session , would produce a revolution in public sentiment . He admitted that there was a most respectable part of the state of Virginia , who had been en- veloped in the " X Y Z delusion , and who destroy our una ...
... passed at the preceding session , would produce a revolution in public sentiment . He admitted that there was a most respectable part of the state of Virginia , who had been en- veloped in the " X Y Z delusion , and who destroy our una ...
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... passing any law which abridged the freedom of speech or of the press , had intended to interdict them from passing any law whatever upon the subject ; that the distinction between liberty and licentiousness , on which the advocates of ...
... passing any law which abridged the freedom of speech or of the press , had intended to interdict them from passing any law whatever upon the subject ; that the distinction between liberty and licentiousness , on which the advocates of ...
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Página 75 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Página 431 - ... progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Página 88 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 88 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers...
Página 513 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second — never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis- Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Página 383 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision.
Página 430 - 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 89 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Página 105 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few ; by resignation, none. Can any other mode than that of removal be proposed ? This is a painful office ; but it is made my duty, and I meet it as such.
Página 158 - 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. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they...