...fellow-citizens, to enter on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear: Equal and exact justice to all men,...

...can be maintained and perpetrated under it. Thomas Jefferson then proclaimed it in these words — " Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none....

...to argue from one to the other. In Jefferson's Inaugural Address, where he develops what he calls " the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration," he mentions " the supremacy of the civil over the military authority " as one of these " essential...

...different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans- — we arc all Federalist«. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political." I was so credulous as to believe all this sincere. I went home, and was active and in earnest...

...honour. ibu. Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Inaugural Address. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all Jefferson continued.] nations, — entangling...

...America, Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to Combat it. Inaugural Address. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nations, — entangling alliances with...

...cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. INAUGURAL ADDRESS. — It is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government. I will state the general principles, but not all their limitations: equal and exact justice to all...

...system." Thomas Jefferson, with other wise sayings declared the principles of this government to be, "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever State or persuasion, religious or political ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened ; encouragement of agriculture,...

...conserve and apply in the administration of the government, these great and inimitable principles: (i) Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; (2) peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliance with none;...

...considered the essential principles and purposes of our government in his inaugural address, as follows: "Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none;...