Thomas JeffersonC. Scribner's Sons, 1918 - 319 pages |
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... arms , he shrank by a native fastidiousness from even the disturbance of a private altercation . He seems also , in his later years at least , not to have had a very high opinion of lawyers . In a letter written from Monticello to his ...
... arms , he shrank by a native fastidiousness from even the disturbance of a private altercation . He seems also , in his later years at least , not to have had a very high opinion of lawyers . In a letter written from Monticello to his ...
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... arms . Our brethren are already in the field . Why stand we here idle ? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be ... arm the colony was carried , and Jefferson was placed , with Henry , Lee , Washington , and nine others , on a com ...
... arms . Our brethren are already in the field . Why stand we here idle ? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be ... arm the colony was carried , and Jefferson was placed , with Henry , Lee , Washington , and nine others , on a com ...
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... proposals . The wounding of two young men who had entered the magazine to secure arms , by spring- guns trained on the doors , raised such a storm against the " murderous governor " in Williamsburg that Lord 28 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
... proposals . The wounding of two young men who had entered the magazine to secure arms , by spring- guns trained on the doors , raised such a storm against the " murderous governor " in Williamsburg that Lord 28 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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... arms of England ; and in England itself we had to convince the Tories of our candor and the Whigs of our courage . It was not long before the masterly pen of Jeffer- son was called into requisition . News of the ter- rible slaughter of ...
... arms of England ; and in England itself we had to convince the Tories of our candor and the Whigs of our courage . It was not long before the masterly pen of Jeffer- son was called into requisition . News of the ter- rible slaughter of ...
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... Arms are worth all the rest of the paper . They are ner- vous , forceful , and thoroughly radical . It is from them that the epigrammatic phrases are often quoted : " Our cause is just , our union is perfect , ” " resolved rather to die ...
... Arms are worth all the rest of the paper . They are ner- vous , forceful , and thoroughly radical . It is from them that the epigrammatic phrases are often quoted : " Our cause is just , our union is perfect , ” " resolved rather to die ...
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Page 27 - Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Page 63 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 63 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Page 225 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 292 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 288 - 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.
Page 291 - 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 50 - 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 68 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Page 297 - I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who call me infidel and themselves Christians and preachers of the gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its author never said nor saw.