The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 第 10 卷Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1903 |
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第 vii 頁
... letter to George Wythe , in 1786 , he said he thought that no other sure foundation than the diffusion of knowledge among the people could be devised for promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man . With Macaulay , he might ...
... letter to George Wythe , in 1786 , he said he thought that no other sure foundation than the diffusion of knowledge among the people could be devised for promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man . With Macaulay , he might ...
第 xi 頁
... letter to Joseph Priestley ( 1802 ) : " Our people in a body are wise , because they are under the unrestrained and unperverted operation of their own understandings . " " Our citizens may be deceived for a while , and have been ...
... letter to Joseph Priestley ( 1802 ) : " Our people in a body are wise , because they are under the unrestrained and unperverted operation of their own understandings . " " Our citizens may be deceived for a while , and have been ...
第 1 頁
Thomas Jefferson. JEFFERSON'S WORKS . LETTERS WRITTEN AFTER HIS RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES . 1789-1826 . TO PEREGRINE ... letter to you which you mention to have been made in the newspapers , I had not till then heard of . Yet the spirit ...
Thomas Jefferson. JEFFERSON'S WORKS . LETTERS WRITTEN AFTER HIS RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES . 1789-1826 . TO PEREGRINE ... letter to you which you mention to have been made in the newspapers , I had not till then heard of . Yet the spirit ...
第 11 頁
... box of seed accompanying the former , which has just come to hand . The letter of the 4th of June , which you mention to have committed to Mr. King , 1 Address lost . has never been received . It has most likely been Correspondence II.
... box of seed accompanying the former , which has just come to hand . The letter of the 4th of June , which you mention to have committed to Mr. King , 1 Address lost . has never been received . It has most likely been Correspondence II.
第 16 頁
... letter to Sir John Sinclair , their president . It is to go off by the packet , wherefore I will ask the favor of you to return them with the model in the course of the present week , with any observations you will be so good as to ...
... letter to Sir John Sinclair , their president . It is to go off by the packet , wherefore I will ask the favor of you to return them with the model in the course of the present week , with any observations you will be so good as to ...
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第 175 頁 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
第 vi 頁 - 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.
第 ii 頁 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
第 311 頁 - It completely reverses all the political relations of the United States, and will form a new epoch in our political course.
第 312 頁 - ... it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis.
第 iv 頁 - I think the best remedy is exactly that provided by all our constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff. In general they will elect the really good and wise. In some instances, wealth may corrupt, and birth blind them ; but not in sufficient degree to endanger the society.
第 415 頁 - Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States ; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.
第 114 頁 - According to these bases, you were right to assert that whatever plenipotentiary the Government of the United States might send to France to put an end to the existing differences between the two countries would be undoubtedly received with the respect due to the representative of a free, independent, and powerful nation.
第 iii 頁 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
第 217 頁 - The tough sides of our Argosy have been thoroughly tried. Her strength has stood the waves into which she was steered, with a view to sink her. We shall put her on her republican tack, and she will now show by the beauty of her motion the skill of her builders.