Tag: keynote speaker
Let Us Get Down to Specifics (4 of 7)
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
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)
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
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)
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
this requires two grades of education. first some institution where science in all it’s branches is taught, and in the highest...
Not Enough Paper to Write to His Wife!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
I have the pleasure to inform you that mr Briggs & his companion were in good health at Colo. Hawkins establishment near...
Business decisions are easy. Personnel ones are not. (OR: HR sucks. Part 5 of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
the transaction of the great interests of our country costs us little trouble or difficulty. there the line is plain to men...
I respect your principled choice, for or against me. (Or: HR sucks. Part 3...
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
you observe that you are, or probably will be, appointed an elector. I have no doubt you will do your duty with...
This Awful Situation has Only One Insufficient Remedy
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
Your two letters, my dear friend, of Aug. 31. & Sep. 9. reached me on the 9th. & 31st. of October. I...
What in the world is happening? Part 1 of 3
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
… 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!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
my heart fails me at the opening such a campaign of bustle & fatigue: the unlimited calumnies of the federalists have...
This has to stop! Help me, please.
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
Craven & Lillie at last have come to an open rupture: a desperate battle took place between them 4 days since: it...
This is the worst sin of all.
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
another object still more important is that every officer of the government make it his peculiar object to root out that abominable...
Including and valuing the losers will strengthen our team!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
… in chusing these characters it has been an object of considerable attention to chuse French who speak the American language, &...
Consider yourself fully employed!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
Have bin down to Richmond to se if I could ingage a job of work before I movd my tools, but have...
Would honest Democrats and honest Republicans today agree?
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object, the public good: but...
THIS is how you staff a new operation.
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
After waiting almost to the 12th. hour to get all the information I could respecting characters at N. Orleans, I have, on...
This is how you express a complaint to a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
The Champagne you were so kind as to send me the last year proved to be very good …and I should have...
Forgiven! Friends again? Part 4 of 4
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
if my respect for him did not permit me to ascribe the whole blame to the influence of others, it left something...
That really hurt! (But it was the only hurt.) Part 3 of 4
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
I can say with truth that one act of mr Adams’s life … and one only, ever gave me a moment’s personal...
Death has opened a door for me. Part 2 of 4
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
… am thankful for the occasion … of expressing my regret that circumstances should have arisen which have seemed to draw...
On the Death of Our Children …. Part 1 of 4
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
The affectionate sentiments … in your letter of May 20. towards my dear departed daughter, have awakened in me sensibilities natural to...
My daughter died
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
I sincerely regret that the unbounded calumnies of the Federal party have obliged me to throw myself on the verdict of...
I do like wine, but I cannot help you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
I … confine my contributions of this kind to the state in which my property lies, & to the district in which...
The fake news possibilities are endless!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
I … learnt the death of Dr. Priestly … request that you will be so kind as to take measures to...
How Much Do You Trust the Person?
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
Th: Jefferson … returns him Govr. Mc.kean’s letter; … was so little noted that neither the person, nor manner can now...
I Do Not Need or Want Power
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
I have no pleasure in the exercise of power … to fortify the principles of free government, to fence them by every...
Let us remain where all religions agree …
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
at an earlier period of life I pursued enquiries of that kind with industry & care. reading, reflection & time have convinced...
The chickens WILL come home to roost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
It is with real mortification that, instead of a remittance … now due, I am obliged to send you this letter. …...