The Political Thought of American Statesmen: Selected Writings and SpeechesMorton J. Frisch, Richard G. Stevens |
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... live , understood this question just as well , and even better , than we do now . " I fully indorse this , and I adopt it as a text for this discourse . I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a ...
... live , understood this question just as well , and even better , than we do now . " I fully indorse this , and I adopt it as a text for this discourse . I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a ...
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... live in society . If they live in society , so far as we can see , there are fur- ther conditions . Reason working on experience does tell us , no doubt , that if our wish to live continues , we can do it only on those terms . But that ...
... live in society . If they live in society , so far as we can see , there are fur- ther conditions . Reason working on experience does tell us , no doubt , that if our wish to live continues , we can do it only on those terms . But that ...
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... live their own lives under a common protection . I am proposing government by the consent of the governed ; that free- dom of the seas which in international conference after conference repre- sentatives of the United States have urged ...
... live their own lives under a common protection . I am proposing government by the consent of the governed ; that free- dom of the seas which in international conference after conference repre- sentatives of the United States have urged ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Founding | 2 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON 17431826 | 6 |
Copyright | |
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