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... thing they can steer clear of difficulties . I have no confidence in myself for the undertaking . " Dec. 27 . In a letter to Edward Rutledge , written some ten days after , and when the result of the election was bet- ter known , he ...
... thing they can steer clear of difficulties . I have no confidence in myself for the undertaking . " Dec. 27 . In a letter to Edward Rutledge , written some ten days after , and when the result of the election was bet- ter known , he ...
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... thing ; especially if matters could be so arranged as to destroy 1796 . the influence of Hamilton with the administration , and to bring Adams to depend for congressional support , in part at least , on the late opposition . That such ...
... thing ; especially if matters could be so arranged as to destroy 1796 . the influence of Hamilton with the administration , and to bring Adams to depend for congressional support , in part at least , on the late opposition . That such ...
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... things out of the hands of the people , but might be putting off his own hopes of preferment to a period almost too in- definite . Whatever might have been the reasons for keeping back the letter , oral advances were made to Adams ...
... things out of the hands of the people , but might be putting off his own hopes of preferment to a period almost too in- definite . Whatever might have been the reasons for keeping back the letter , oral advances were made to Adams ...
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... things . I hate levées and drawing - rooms . I hate to speak to a thousand people to whom I have no- thing to say . Yet all this I can do . But I am too old to continue more than one , or , at most , more than two heats , and that is ...
... things . I hate levées and drawing - rooms . I hate to speak to a thousand people to whom I have no- thing to say . Yet all this I can do . But I am too old to continue more than one , or , at most , more than two heats , and that is ...
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... thing essential , any thing more than mere ornament and decoration , be add- ed to this by robes and diamonds ? Can authority be more amiable and respectable , when it descends from ac- cidents , or institutions established in remote ...
... thing essential , any thing more than mere ornament and decoration , be add- ed to this by robes and diamonds ? Can authority be more amiable and respectable , when it descends from ac- cidents , or institutions established in remote ...
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Seite 217 - I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Seite 167 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter, when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Seite 478 - Mexican republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Seite 167 - But, to punish (as the law does at present) any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published, shall, on a fair and impartial trial, be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.
Seite 40 - Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations, for eight years, under the administration of a citizen, who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues, and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty,...
Seite 41 - If a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth ; if an attachment to the Constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it, until it shall be altered by the...
Seite 67 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France, and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence ; and regardless of national honor, character, and interest...
Seite 276 - States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities,...
Seite 273 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Seite 496 - In the salutary operation of this sagacious and benevolent restraint it is believed that the inhabitants of Indiana will at no very distant day find ample remuneration for a temporary privation of labor and of emigration.