The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 12Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1903 - United States |
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... rendered necessary . I became of course the butt of everything which reason , ridicule , malice and falsehood could supply . They have concentrated all their hatred on me , till they have really persuaded themselves , that I am the sole ...
... rendered necessary . I became of course the butt of everything which reason , ridicule , malice and falsehood could supply . They have concentrated all their hatred on me , till they have really persuaded themselves , that I am the sole ...
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... render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power us , in tome of head , standing Armas without the Consent of our logistatures .. lition foinign to our constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his Afsent ...
... render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power us , in tome of head , standing Armas without the Consent of our logistatures .. lition foinign to our constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his Afsent ...
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... render it productive , the United States have not thought the moment as yet arrived when it would be wise in them to divert their funds to objects less pressing ; no law has yet authorized acquisitions of this character . The idea of render ...
... render it productive , the United States have not thought the moment as yet arrived when it would be wise in them to divert their funds to objects less pressing ; no law has yet authorized acquisitions of this character . The idea of render ...
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... renders the rapids impassable for rafts . They think vessels of any kind desired , can be had on the Lake at a moment's warning , and guns of 6 lbs . ball , there also , mounted on them by procure- ment of the collector , and that the ...
... renders the rapids impassable for rafts . They think vessels of any kind desired , can be had on the Lake at a moment's warning , and guns of 6 lbs . ball , there also , mounted on them by procure- ment of the collector , and that the ...
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... render his influence as extensive as possible . I had been in hopes that a change in the British ministry would have produced a revo- cation of the orders of council , which called for our embargo , and an European peace , so as to have ...
... render his influence as extensive as possible . I had been in hopes that a change in the British ministry would have produced a revo- cation of the orders of council , which called for our embargo , and an European peace , so as to have ...
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Page iii - 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 iii - 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 xxvii - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page xxviii - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 256 - Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight.
Page iv - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page xxix - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art or dictated by force; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 266 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page xxvii - Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...