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I would prefer to, but duty dictates I must not – Thomas Jefferson
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were I to yield to my own feelings … … so many respectable persons as have signed the petition, my path...
Let Us Be Smart About This (5 of 7) – Jefferson’s Plans for University...
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buildings. the greatest danger will be their over-building themselves, by attempting a large house in the beginning, sufficient to contain the whole...
Let Us Get Down to Specifics (4 of 7)
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The charter being granted & the Visitors named, these become then the Agents as to every thing else. their first objects will...
Duh! First Things First! (3 of 7)
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The first step in this business will be for the legislature to pass an act of establishment, equivalent to a charter....
I am happy to start with just half a loaf (2 of 7)
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this requires two grades of education. first some institution where science in all it’s branches is taught, and in the highest...
I have been where you are …. Go. (Part 1 of 2)
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I recieved last night your letter of the 26th. proposing to resign your office, and I recieved it with real affliction. it...
Not Enough Paper to Write to His Wife!
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I have the pleasure to inform you that mr Briggs & his companion were in good health at Colo. Hawkins establishment near...
Immigrants should be treated … how?
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they will find a disposition in the great majority here to do whatever circumstances will admit for our new fellow citizens, to...
Business decisions are easy. Personnel ones are not. (OR: HR sucks. Part 5 of...
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the transaction of the great interests of our country costs us little trouble or difficulty. there the line is plain to men...
I make one friend & 10 enemies at the same time. (OR: HR sucks....
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… you hundreds to nominate, instead of one, be assured they would not compose for you a bed of roses....
I respect your principled choice, for or against me. (Or: HR sucks. Part 3...
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you observe that you are, or probably will be, appointed an elector. I have no doubt you will do your duty with...
You have your answer. (Or: HR sucks, Part 1 of 4)
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Your letter of the 10th. came to hand yesterday evening. it is written with frankness and independance, and will be answered in...
This Awful Situation has Only One Insufficient Remedy
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Your two letters, my dear friend, of Aug. 31. & Sep. 9. reached me on the 9th. & 31st. of October. I...
This Is How You Get The U.S. Out Of Debt
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The state of our finances continues to fulfill our expectations. Eleven millions & an half of Dollars recieved in the course of...
What in the world is happening? Part 1 of 3
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… These, fellow citizens, are the principal matters which I have thought it necessary at this time to communicate for your consideration...
I hate the thought of four more years of this!
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my heart fails me at the opening such a campaign of bustle & fatigue: the unlimited calumnies of the federalists have...
About your brother, Meriwether…
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I inclose you a letter directed to your brother which came to me under cover a few days ago. I have the...
This is how you express a complaint to a friend.
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The Champagne you were so kind as to send me the last year proved to be very good …and I should have...
On the Death of Our Children …. Part 1 of 4
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The affectionate sentiments … in your letter of May 20. towards my dear departed daughter, have awakened in me sensibilities natural to...
My daughter died
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On the 17th. instant our hopes & fears here took their ultimate form.
Source: Thomas Jefferson letter to James Madison, 23 April...
I have to serve again, and it is THEIR fault.
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I sincerely regret that the unbounded calumnies of the Federal party have obliged me to throw myself on the verdict of...
Politics really suck in 2019!
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you now see the composition of our public bodies, and how essential system and plan are for conducting our affairs wisely with...
Family & health come first, before leadership
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Having understood that you have been unwell, & that your family is still so, I have not asked your attendance here, lest...
Thomas Jefferson had a copy machine?
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I communicate to Congress, for their information, a report of the Surveyor of the public buildings at Washington, stating what has been...
How much freedom for man? How much power for government?
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… Can man govern himself? … the one great object of proving that a government may be so free as to...
I am DISinterested!
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… in a government like ours it is the duty of the Chief-magistrate , in order to enable himself to do all...
The chickens WILL come home to roost.
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It is with real mortification that, instead of a remittance … now due, I am obliged to send you this letter. …...
We gotta help this kid!
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The bearer hereof, mr Smith, is the son of Gen. Smith of Baltimore … who wishes to qualify himself to be useful...