Thomas Jefferson Quotes
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man,--who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, in the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose!
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Letter to Jean Nicholas de Meusnier, January 24,1786
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In the Civil War a drafted conscript could pay money instead of serving in the army. Many rich and middle class men did so leaving a higher proportion of the poor to be drafted. The song is sometimes misattributed to William Cullen Bryant.
The description is of the Mexican conquest of Arizona and the Indian revolt. See {612107}
Thomas Jefferson used this quotation in one of his arguments against slavery. Jove was the most powerful of the Ancient Greek Gods.
Eldest son of Robert Walpole. Lord Dunmore, royal governor of Virginia, had issued a proclamation offering freedom to slaves willing to defend the Crown
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
As a British Loyalist officer, he and his men were dispatched to Savannah, Georgia. There he saw the Southern version of slavery for the first. He questioned the character of the slave owners and most interesting, he tied the consumer enjoyment of Rice and Sugar by Northerners to the suffering of the Negro slaves. At the end of the Revolutionary war, he and many other loyalists fled to Canada and began his political career, then representing Britain in the Caribbean. Also see {591380}.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
