Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves,... Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Page 138by Massachusetts Historical Society - 1873Full view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 554 pages
...themselves, and united as to every thing respecting foreign nations. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants. But I repeat, that... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...themselves, and united as to every thing respecting foreign nations. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants. But I repeat, that... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 656 pages
...themselves, and united as to every thing respecting foreign nations. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants. But I repeat, that... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 pages
...themselves, and united as to every thing respecting foreign nations. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants. But I repeat, that... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pages
...themselves, and united as to every thing respecting foreign nations. Let the General GoTernment be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of nlI other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they... | |
| George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...action in our civil affairs, most reflecting minds will yield assent. "Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants." Mr. Jefferson, as... | |
| George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...in ( our civil affairs, most reflecting minds will yield assent : — "Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...all other nations, except as to commerce, which the meri chants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our general... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 618 pages
...within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants. But I repeat, that... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 620 pages
...within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants. But I repeat, that... | |
| 1873 - 794 pages
...of a Webster or a Clay. This is the Jeffersonian system, in brief: " Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs...government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants." This was the basis.... | |
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