The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 12G.P. Putnam's sons, 1905 - United States |
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... present at the helm , and ask but for rest , peace and good will . The question you propose , on equal representation , has become a party one , in which I wish to take no public share . Yet , if it be asked for your own satis- faction ...
... present at the helm , and ask but for rest , peace and good will . The question you propose , on equal representation , has become a party one , in which I wish to take no public share . Yet , if it be asked for your own satis- faction ...
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... present vacancy too , of other matter , would give them place in every paper , and bring the question home to every man's conscience . But inequality of representation in both Houses of our legislature , is not the only republican ...
... present vacancy too , of other matter , would give them place in every paper , and bring the question home to every man's conscience . But inequality of representation in both Houses of our legislature , is not the only republican ...
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... present mode of appointment . In one State of the Union , at least , it has long been tried , and with the most satisfactory success . The judges of Connecticut have been chosen by the people every six months , for nearly two centuries ...
... present mode of appointment . In one State of the Union , at least , it has long been tried , and with the most satisfactory success . The judges of Connecticut have been chosen by the people every six months , for nearly two centuries ...
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... present , but without the experience of the present ; and forty years of experi- ence in government is worth a century of book - read- ing ; and this they would say themselves , were they to rise from the dead . I am certainly not an ...
... present , but without the experience of the present ; and forty years of experi- ence in government is worth a century of book - read- ing ; and this they would say themselves , were they to rise from the dead . I am certainly not an ...
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... present mass of adults ? If they have not , who has ? The dead ? But the dead have no rights . They are nothing ; and nothing cannot own something . Where there is no sub- stance , there can be no accident . This corporeal globe , and ...
... present mass of adults ? If they have not , who has ? The dead ? But the dead have no rights . They are nothing ; and nothing cannot own something . Where there is no sub- stance , there can be no accident . This corporeal globe , and ...
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Page 136 - They contain the true principles of the revolution of 1 800, for that was as real a revolution in the principles of our government as that of 1776 was in its form...
Page 178 - An opinion is huddled up in conclave, perhaps by a majority of one, delivered as if unanimous, and with the silent acquiescence of lazy or timid associates, by a crafty chief judge, who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning.
Page 103 - I will not, therefore, by useless condolences, open afresh the sluices of your grief, nor, although mingling sincerely my tears with yours, will I say a word more where words are vain, but that it is of some comfort to us both that the term is not very distant at which we are to deposit in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall still love and never lose again.
Page 319 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
Page 242 - The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man. 1 . That there is one only God, and he all perfect. 2. That there is a future state of rewards and punishments. 3. That to love God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself, is the sum of religion.
Page 110 - The next observed, that the word makes might as well be omitted, because his customers would not care who made the hats; if good, and to their mind, they would buy, by whomsoever made. He struck it out. A third said he thought the words for ready money, were useless, as it was not the custom of the place to sell on credit.
Page 12 - I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind . . . 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 163 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Page 11 - 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.
Page 406 - s the happy man that may to thy blest courts repair ; Not stranger-like to visit them, but to inhabit there ? 'T is he whose every thought and deed by rules of virtue moves ; Whose generous tongue disdains to speak the thing his heart disproves...