Thomas Jefferson His Permanent Influence on American InstitutionsLooks at the influence of Thomas Jefferson as a Virginian, a revolutionist, a diplomat, and as President of the United States. |
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... land , in defence of the freedom that is our birth- right , and which we ever enjoyed until the late violation of it ; for the protection of our property , acquired solely by the honest in- dustry of our forefathers and ourselves , and ...
... land , in defence of the freedom that is our birth- right , and which we ever enjoyed until the late violation of it ; for the protection of our property , acquired solely by the honest in- dustry of our forefathers and ourselves , and ...
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... land , or equal justice or equality in the family and among citizens . Thus it came about that slavery was not compatible with his doctrine . Throughout his entire life he was consistently and persistently opposed to it . It crops out ...
... land , or equal justice or equality in the family and among citizens . Thus it came about that slavery was not compatible with his doctrine . Throughout his entire life he was consistently and persistently opposed to it . It crops out ...
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... lands to the emancipation and deportation of the slaves . In after years , however , after the cotton gin came into general use , any voluntary abolition of slavery became impossible ; that is impos- sible , unless human nature itself ...
... lands to the emancipation and deportation of the slaves . In after years , however , after the cotton gin came into general use , any voluntary abolition of slavery became impossible ; that is impos- sible , unless human nature itself ...
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... land , and what waste in treasures had been spared us ! And if your Northern forefathers had only remembered the balance of what Jefferson wrote and knew so well , or if they could , in the nature of things , have known it ; namely ...
... land , and what waste in treasures had been spared us ! And if your Northern forefathers had only remembered the balance of what Jefferson wrote and knew so well , or if they could , in the nature of things , have known it ; namely ...
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... land given them . Lincoln , like Jefferson , recognized inherent differ- ences between the two races , and regarded the blacks as essentially inferior . In other words , neither was ever free of that which most people call " race preju ...
... land given them . Lincoln , like Jefferson , recognized inherent differ- ences between the two races , and regarded the blacks as essentially inferior . In other words , neither was ever free of that which most people call " race preju ...
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Page 193 - You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Page 259 - I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against ] every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Page 81 - 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?
Page 209 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 250 - 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 our 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 rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement...
Page 218 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
Page 136 - 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 cis-atlantic affairs.
Page 81 - Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing in the march of time. It will come; and whether brought on by the generous energy of our own minds, or by the bloody process of St. Domingo...
Page 249 - Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness...
Page 205 - Not so can it ever be in the hands of France. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character...