The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 18Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1904 |
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... Legislature of Vir- ginia , before the Revolution , and during it with Dr. Franklin in Congress . I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time , nor to any but the main point , which was to decide the question . " He ...
... Legislature of Vir- ginia , before the Revolution , and during it with Dr. Franklin in Congress . I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time , nor to any but the main point , which was to decide the question . " He ...
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... legislatures , judges , governors , and councellors of the States , nor their other peaceable inhabitants , who may venture to reclaim the constitutional rights and liberties of the States and people , or who for other causes , good or ...
... legislatures , judges , governors , and councellors of the States , nor their other peaceable inhabitants , who may venture to reclaim the constitutional rights and liberties of the States and people , or who for other causes , good or ...
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... legislature which he would then have yielded ; and to let them work out the amelioration of the condition of the people , until they should have been rendered capable of more . In 1793 , to De Viar and De Jandenes , he wrote : " Your ...
... legislature which he would then have yielded ; and to let them work out the amelioration of the condition of the people , until they should have been rendered capable of more . In 1793 , to De Viar and De Jandenes , he wrote : " Your ...
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... legislature incorporating the city of New Orleans . [ Thierry 32. ] That no formal written act of authorization can be produced is not singular , as that is known to be the condition of a great proportion of their titles from the govern ...
... legislature incorporating the city of New Orleans . [ Thierry 32. ] That no formal written act of authorization can be produced is not singular , as that is known to be the condition of a great proportion of their titles from the govern ...
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... legislature shall will . The changes introduced by Spain , after 1769 , were chiefly in the organization of their government , and but little in the principles of their jurisprudence . The instrument which some have understood as ...
... legislature shall will . The changes introduced by Spain , after 1769 , were chiefly in the organization of their government , and but little in the principles of their jurisprudence . The instrument which some have understood as ...
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Page 450 - ... full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air. some village Hampden that with dauntless breast the little tyrant of his fields withstood, some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
Page 442 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No withered witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew! The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little...
Page xv - Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, and were reserved to the States or to the people ; that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed...
Page 439 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page xi - I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another : for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.
Page xxviii - ... the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of 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...
Page 429 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page xxxv - It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.