An American BibleAlice Hubbard The Roycrofters, 1912 - 328 pages A collection of quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elbert Hubbard |
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Page 19
... Thomas Jefferson established no court at Washington . He did not ape and imitate nobility . There was only one nobility he recognized , and that was the nobility of character . He lived his simple life there , and his business was to ...
... Thomas Jefferson established no court at Washington . He did not ape and imitate nobility . There was only one nobility he recognized , and that was the nobility of character . He lived his simple life there , and his business was to ...
Page 20
... Thomas Jefferson laid a foundation for Democracy for all nations Democracy amalgamates the classes of master and slave , rich and poor , patrician and plebeian , for Democracy is a recognition of monism- " ye are all brethren . " Thomas ...
... Thomas Jefferson laid a foundation for Democracy for all nations Democracy amalgamates the classes of master and slave , rich and poor , patrician and plebeian , for Democracy is a recognition of monism- " ye are all brethren . " Thomas ...
Page 105
... most inflexible I have ever known , no motives of interest or consanguinity , of friendship or hatred , being able to bias his decision . He was , indeed , in every sense of the words , a wise , a good and 105 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
... most inflexible I have ever known , no motives of interest or consanguinity , of friendship or hatred , being able to bias his decision . He was , indeed , in every sense of the words , a wise , a good and 105 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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