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The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States, Inaugural ... - Page 146
by United States. President - 1846
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Thomas Jefferson: The Revolution of Ideas

R. B. Bernstein - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 258 pages
...theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the...government on earth. I believe it the only one where very man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of...
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Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point

Robert M. S. McDonald - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 264 pages
...tool of despotic power. He juxtaposed the republican ideal of the good citizen who, in time of crisis, "would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet...of the public order as his own personal concern," to the abject servility of the professional soldier who would obey any master.8 But he most distrusted...
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The Shortest and Most Convenient Route: Lewis and Clark in Context

Robert S. Cox - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 288 pages
...the new republic's government would derive from a situation "where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet...of the public order as his own personal concern." But the republicans of the new United States recognized that such unified sentiment and personal identification...
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Neighborhood Futures: Citizen Rights and Local Control

Political Science - 2004 - 218 pages
...Jefferson's Second Inaugural, with its description of a society "where every man at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law and would meet...of the public order as his own personal concern." Some experimentation along these lines has been undertaken in which the incentive to participation...
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Worlds Greatest Speeches

Vijaya Kumar - Literary Collections - 2013 - 212 pages
...strongest government on earth, I believe, is the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet...own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of others. Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern...
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The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898

Sanford Levinson, Bartholomew H. Sparrow - History - 2005 - 288 pages
...Inaugural. The Americans' republican government was "the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet...of the public order as his own personal concern"; because it put all citizens on an equal plane and so transcended the internal conflicts and resistance...
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America's Forgotten History: Part One. Foundations

Mark David Ledbetter - 379 pages
...the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet...invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. There would be no sedition acts. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or...
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Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment

George Anastaplo - Performing Arts - 2007 - 346 pages
...theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the...it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own...
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Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America--Winthrop ...

Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...and visionary fear, that this government, the world's best hope, may, by possibility, want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the...the only one, where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own...
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