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- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our…
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
- The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
- I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
- All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
- But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
- War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of…
- We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but…
- A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most…
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