Thomas Jefferson, His Permanent Influence on American Institutions

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Columbia University Press, 1913 - Biography & Autobiography - 330 pages
Looks at the influence of Thomas Jefferson as a Virginian, a revolutionist, a diplomat, and as President of the United States.

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Page 238 - 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 77 - But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it
Page 280 - great unless the teachers and the teaching are free and untrammelled. With this idea in his mind, Mr. Jefferson, in a letter to Mr. Roscoe, dated December 7, 1820, says: — "This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may
Page 37 - constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 293 - of our citizens from the highest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so it will be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.'.' Verily; again the words recur: — "He was stigmatized as a dreamer, but his dreams came true.
Page 266 - dry statute, but characteristic of Jefferson! What follows, too, occurring in a letter written to Dr. WT Barry on August 4, 1822, is characteristic. After complimenting Barry on what had been done in the Legislature of Kentucky for popular education, he says: "A popular government, without information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge
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Page 238 - And though we know well that this Assembly, elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies, constituted with powers equal to their own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the
Page 255 - To improve, by reading, his faculties and morals. 4. "To understand his duties to his neighbors and his country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either. 5. " To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he
Page 71 - men in all times, and so to embalm it there that today and in all days to come it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block to the very harbinger of reappearing tyranny and oppression." ^ It has been sometimes urged that Jefferson was not altogether consistent because he did not emancipate his own slaves. Jefferson was in debt — the debt had

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