 Against us are the Executive, the Judiciary, two out of three branches of the Legislature, all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - 第 295 頁Henry Stephens Randall 著 - 1858完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | John Lauritz Larson - 2001 - 348 頁
...talents"); against these stood the executive, judiciary, all officers and would-be officers of government, all "timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to...boisterous sea of liberty," British merchants and their American debtors, and "speculators" in public funds. The greatest men of the Revolution had "gone... | |
 | Philip Allott - 2002 - 448 頁
...Executive, the Judiciary, two out of three branches of the Legislature, all the officers of government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer...British merchants and Americans trading on British capital, speculators and holders in the banks and public funds, a contrivance invented for the purposes... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 頁
...fretted: "Against us are the Executive, the Judiciary, ... all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer...calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. ..." He then wrote a sentence that haunted him for the rest of his life: "It would give you a fever... | |
 | John Ferling - 2004 - 288 頁
...aristocratic party" that controlled the presidency, Senate, and federal judiciary. Those Federalists were "all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty." Driven by the hope of pecuniary rewards, they wished not only to tie the United States to Great Britain... | |
 | Susan Dunn - 2004 - 396 頁
...friend Philip Mazzei in 1796, in which he complained about Federalist leaders, scornfully calling them "timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty." Mazzei leaked the letter to the press in Italy, after which it was picked up in Paris and then in the... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 637 頁
...talent"; the Federalists had " the Executive, the Judiciary , " the office-holders and officeseckers — "all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty, British merchants & Americans trading on British capital, speculators & holders in the banks & public funds, a contrivance... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - 2006 - 499 頁
...remained true to their principles. But the executive and judicial branches of government were filled with "timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty." Perhaps Jefferson referred principally to Hamilton and Adams, but since he did not name the men he... | |
 | Edward J. Larson - 2007 - 355 頁
...legislature, all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who preferred the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty,...merchants and Americans trading on British capitals, [and] speculators and holders in the banks and public funds," Jefferson wrote during the waning days... | |
 | Eric Burns - 2007 - 480 頁
...under the British. Federalists, as Jefferson explained in a letter to his friend Philip Mazzei, were "timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty, British merchants & Americans trading on British capitals, speculators & holders in the banks & public funds, a contrivance... | |
 | 140 頁
...out of three branches of the legislature, all of the officers of the government, all who want to he officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism...speculators and holders in the banks and public funds. B Because of Mazzei's indiscretion, the words soon echoed through Europe and America, bringing acute... | |
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