Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph1829 |
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... question . I am sorry that in the moment of such a disposi- tion , any thing should come from us to check it . The placing them on a mere footing with the English will have this effect . When of two nations , the one has engaged herself ...
... question . I am sorry that in the moment of such a disposi- tion , any thing should come from us to check it . The placing them on a mere footing with the English will have this effect . When of two nations , the one has engaged herself ...
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... question , whether one generation of men has a right to bind another , seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water . Yet it is a question of such conse- quences as not only to merit decision , but place also ...
... question , whether one generation of men has a right to bind another , seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water . Yet it is a question of such conse- quences as not only to merit decision , but place also ...
第 31 頁
... questions , whether the nation may change the descent of lands holden in tail ; whether they may change the appropriation ... question of generosity and not of right . In all these cases , the legislature of the day could authorize such ...
... questions , whether the nation may change the descent of lands holden in tail ; whether they may change the appropriation ... question of generosity and not of right . In all these cases , the legislature of the day could authorize such ...
第 38 頁
... question before them . The Assembly has done nothing more , as yet , than to appoint a committee of inquiry . So much of Chillon's ordinance as admitted the importation of our provisions , is continued for a time . M. de Marbois , too ...
... question before them . The Assembly has done nothing more , as yet , than to appoint a committee of inquiry . So much of Chillon's ordinance as admitted the importation of our provisions , is continued for a time . M. de Marbois , too ...
第 61 頁
... question whether the debts contracted by the particular States for general pur- poses should , at once , be assumed by the General Govern- ment . A development of circumstances , and more mature consideration , seem to have produced ...
... question whether the debts contracted by the particular States for general pur- poses should , at once , be assumed by the General Govern- ment . A development of circumstances , and more mature consideration , seem to have produced ...
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第 131 頁 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
第 298 頁 - But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
第 298 頁 - 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.
第 298 頁 - 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 book-reading :...
第 521 頁 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they...
第 391 頁 - 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. With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
第 298 頁 - ... 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;...
第 287 頁 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
第 332 頁 - 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.
第 232 頁 - And indeed, it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?