Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4F. Carr, and Company, 1829 - United States |
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... branches had passed by great majorities one of the bills for execution , and would soon pass the other two ; that no circum- stances remained that could leave a doubt of our punctual per- formance ; and like an able and an honest ...
... branches had passed by great majorities one of the bills for execution , and would soon pass the other two ; that no circum- stances remained that could leave a doubt of our punctual per- formance ; and like an able and an honest ...
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... storing their pupils with a lore which the present state of society does not call for , con- verted into schools of agriculture , might restore them to that branch VOL . IV . qualified to enrich and honor themselves , and to increase 9.
... storing their pupils with a lore which the present state of society does not call for , con- verted into schools of agriculture , might restore them to that branch VOL . IV . qualified to enrich and honor themselves , and to increase 9.
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... branch bank of the United States in New Or- leans . This institution is one of the most deadly hostility existing , against the principles and form of our constitution . The nation is , at this time , so strong and united in its ...
... branch bank of the United States in New Or- leans . This institution is one of the most deadly hostility existing , against the principles and form of our constitution . The nation is , at this time , so strong and united in its ...
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... branches should be checks on each other . But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are ... branch . Nor does the opinion of the un- constitutionality , and consequent nullity of that law , remove all re ...
... branches should be checks on each other . But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are ... branch . Nor does the opinion of the un- constitutionality , and consequent nullity of that law , remove all re ...
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... a belief that the skin - deep scratches which we can make or find on the surface of the earth , do not repay our time with as certain and useful deductions , as our pursuits in some other branches . The subject of our 30.
... a belief that the skin - deep scratches which we can make or find on the surface of the earth , do not repay our time with as certain and useful deductions , as our pursuits in some other branches . The subject of our 30.
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Page 324 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.
Page 290 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of bookreading; and...
Page 382 - 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. 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 290 - I know, also, that laws and institutions muit go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Page 291 - We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Page 236 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known ; no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a...
Page 413 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Page 3 - I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
Page 441 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Page 382 - Nor is the occasion to be slighted which this proposition offers, of declaring our protest against the atrocious violations of the rights of nations, by the interference of any one in the internal affairs of another, so flagitiously begun by Bonaparte, and now continued by the equally lawless Alliance, calling itself Holy.