The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ... |
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... retire , and possibly their col- onies might secede from the Union : That such a secession would weaken us more than could be compensated by any foreign alliance : That in the event of such a division , foreign powers would either ...
... retire , and possibly their col- onies might secede from the Union : That such a secession would weaken us more than could be compensated by any foreign alliance : That in the event of such a division , foreign powers would either ...
Page 74
... retired from my seat in Congress on the 2d of September , resigned it , and took my place in the legislature of my state on the 7th of October . In this situation he was indefatigable in his labours to improve the imperfect constitution ...
... retired from my seat in Congress on the 2d of September , resigned it , and took my place in the legislature of my state on the 7th of October . In this situation he was indefatigable in his labours to improve the imperfect constitution ...
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... retired from the legislature . Being elected also one of the Visiters of William and Mary College , a self - electing body , he effected during his residence in Williamsburgh that year , a change in the organization of that institution ...
... retired from the legislature . Being elected also one of the Visiters of William and Mary College , a self - electing body , he effected during his residence in Williamsburgh that year , a change in the organization of that institution ...
Page 120
... that , the boring mill , the magazine , and two other houses , and proceeded to Westham ; but noth- ing being in their power there , they retired to Rich- mond . The next morning they burnt some buildings of 120 LIFE OF JEFFERSON .
... that , the boring mill , the magazine , and two other houses , and proceeded to Westham ; but noth- ing being in their power there , they retired to Rich- mond . The next morning they burnt some buildings of 120 LIFE OF JEFFERSON .
Page 121
... retired towards West- over , where they encamped within the Neck the next day . The loss sustained is not yet accurately known . As far as I have been able to discover , it consisted , at this place , of about three hundred muskets ...
... retired towards West- over , where they encamped within the Neck the next day . The loss sustained is not yet accurately known . As far as I have been able to discover , it consisted , at this place , of about three hundred muskets ...
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Page 49 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.