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... necessary to the carrying out of these financial measures . Jefferson's opposition to them was well known at the time , and was freely expressed in his writings , but they were not made subjects of Cabinet discussions . In January ...
... necessary to the carrying out of these financial measures . Jefferson's opposition to them was well known at the time , and was freely expressed in his writings , but they were not made subjects of Cabinet discussions . In January ...
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... necessary for the Cabinet to take up the question of dealing with him . They agreed unani- mously that the French government should be requested to re- call him ; but on the question how the communication should be made , there was the ...
... necessary for the Cabinet to take up the question of dealing with him . They agreed unani- mously that the French government should be requested to re- call him ; but on the question how the communication should be made , there was the ...
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... necessary harmony . " At the further solicitation of the President , however , Jefferson agreed to continue in office through December . On December 31st , 1793 , therefore , Jefferson finally trans- mitted his resignation , couched in ...
... necessary harmony . " At the further solicitation of the President , however , Jefferson agreed to continue in office through December . On December 31st , 1793 , therefore , Jefferson finally trans- mitted his resignation , couched in ...
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... necessary occupations . " To Tenche Coxe , an old friend , he wrote in a vein which later furnished his opponents with a theme for much ridicule : " I am still warm whenever I think of those scoundrels [ mem- bers of Congress who had ...
... necessary occupations . " To Tenche Coxe , an old friend , he wrote in a vein which later furnished his opponents with a theme for much ridicule : " I am still warm whenever I think of those scoundrels [ mem- bers of Congress who had ...
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... necessary . I can particularly have no feelings which would revolt at a secondary position to Mr. Adams . I am his junior in life , was his junior in Congress , his junior in the diplomatic line , his junior lately in our civil ...
... necessary . I can particularly have no feelings which would revolt at a secondary position to Mr. Adams . I am his junior in life , was his junior in Congress , his junior in the diplomatic line , his junior lately in our civil ...
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Page 261 - 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 never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 132 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 396 - 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.
Page 367 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 248 - 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.
Page 232 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Page 260 - He has constrained our fellow-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.
Page 395 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 396 - 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 his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 259 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.