 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 pages
...our rights that we resort to government at all." — Thomas Jefferson to Francois D'lvernois, 1795 "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." — Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12/20/1787 "We're dealing with the oldest political... | |
 | 1876 - 862 pages
...reserved the right to withdraw ! the course he subsequently took in his interpretation of it. He said : " I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government ; it ia always oppressive ; it places the governors indeed more at their ease, but at the expense of the... | |
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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm, than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in... 
