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Thomas Jefferson, 04 March 1801:
Excerpt
from first inaugural address:
Let us then, with
courage and confidence, pursue our own federal and republican
principles; our attachment to union and representative government.
Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc
of one quarter of the globe; too high minded to endure the degradations
of the others, possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our
descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation, entertaining a
due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the
acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our
fellow citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and
their sense of them, enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed
and practised in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty,
truth, temperance, gratitude and the love of man, acknowledging and
adoring an overruling providence, which by all its dispensations proves
that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness
hereafter; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a
happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a
wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one
another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits
of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor
the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government; and this is
necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
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