The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture at New OrleansTaylor & Maury, 1854 - United States |
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... raise the estimate , but the difference in their maintenance will soon make it a measure of economy . Presuming it ... raising and laying up our vessels on a dry and sheltered bed . And should the measure be found useful here , similar ...
... raise the estimate , but the difference in their maintenance will soon make it a measure of economy . Presuming it ... raising and laying up our vessels on a dry and sheltered bed . And should the measure be found useful here , similar ...
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... raising regu- lar forces after the necessity of them shall become certain ; and the reducing to the early period of life all its active service can- not but be desirable to our younger citizens , of the present as well as future times ...
... raising regu- lar forces after the necessity of them shall become certain ; and the reducing to the early period of life all its active service can- not but be desirable to our younger citizens , of the present as well as future times ...
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... raise , pay , or subsist , an army of Arabs , to march from Derne to Tripoli and to carry on a land war at such a distance from our resources . Our means and our authority was merely naval , and that such were the expectations of Hamet ...
... raise , pay , or subsist , an army of Arabs , to march from Derne to Tripoli and to carry on a land war at such a distance from our resources . Our means and our authority was merely naval , and that such were the expectations of Hamet ...
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... raised whenever a speck of war is visible in our horizon , we never should have been without them . Our resources would have been exhausted on dangers which have never happened , instead of being reserved for what is really to take ...
... raised whenever a speck of war is visible in our horizon , we never should have been without them . Our resources would have been exhausted on dangers which have never happened , instead of being reserved for what is really to take ...
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... raised , and to what extent , must depend on the information so shortly expected . In the meantime , I have called on the States for quotas of militia , to be in readiness for present defence ; and have , moreover , en- couraged the ...
... raised , and to what extent , must depend on the information so shortly expected . In the meantime , I have called on the States for quotas of militia , to be in readiness for present defence ; and have , moreover , en- couraged the ...
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Page 405 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 2 - 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 4 - ... the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason ; freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and 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 3 - ... with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, 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 2 - 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...
Page 390 - In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.
Page 311 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 2 - I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To you then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked amidst the conflicting elements of a troubled world.
Page 455 - ... that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Page 5 - The approbation implied by your suffrage is a consolation to me for the past ; and my future solicitude will be to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all. Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make....