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... writing of books , and when the man of New England strode forward , pen in hand , nominated himself custodian of our na- tional archives and began to compile the record , nobody seriously contested the office . This being so , it ...
... writing of books , and when the man of New England strode forward , pen in hand , nominated himself custodian of our na- tional archives and began to compile the record , nobody seriously contested the office . This being so , it ...
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... writers claim . There was no slave system in Europe ; and yet in England , France , and Germany , the citizen whose condition compelled him to earn his daily bread in the sweat of his face was held to be the social inferior of the man ...
... writers claim . There was no slave system in Europe ; and yet in England , France , and Germany , the citizen whose condition compelled him to earn his daily bread in the sweat of his face was held to be the social inferior of the man ...
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... " He had no liking for novels , though he paid Cervantes the tribute of reading Don Quixote twice . But it must be borne in mind that novel - writing in Jefferson's youth was an infant industry in com- parison 19 YOUTH AND EDUCATION.
... " He had no liking for novels , though he paid Cervantes the tribute of reading Don Quixote twice . But it must be borne in mind that novel - writing in Jefferson's youth was an infant industry in com- parison 19 YOUTH AND EDUCATION.
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... writing from New York in September , 1765 , notifies Secretary Conway , of the British Cabinet , that the Virginia resolutions had given " the signal for a general outcry over the continent . " Edmund Burke , speaking in Parliament ...
... writing from New York in September , 1765 , notifies Secretary Conway , of the British Cabinet , that the Virginia resolutions had given " the signal for a general outcry over the continent . " Edmund Burke , speaking in Parliament ...
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... writing if he could avoid it , a patriot whose rise to fame was due solely to his wonderful gift of oratory . Compared with a finished scholar , such as Jefferson or Madison , Patrick Henry was illiterate ; compared with George ...
... writing if he could avoid it , a patriot whose rise to fame was due solely to his wonderful gift of oratory . Compared with a finished scholar , such as Jefferson or Madison , Patrick Henry was illiterate ; compared with George ...
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Page 521 - Still one thing more, fellow citizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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.
Page 523 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 521 - Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe ; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others ; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation...
Page 522 - ... 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 522 - About to enter, fellow citizens upon the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently, those which ought to shape its administration.
Page 520 - 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 as capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty...
Page 520 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.
Page 492 - 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 cisatlantic 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.
Page 520 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 520 - During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore ; that this should be more felt and feared by some, and less by others, and should divide opinions as to measures of safety; but every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren...