Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-07-19
EXTRACTS
PROM THE WRITINGS or THOMAS
JEFFERSON.

second.
Science is more important in a
republican than in any other gov
eminent.
Stable ownership is the gift of
social law, and Is given late in the
progress Of society.
No man will ever bring ont Of
the Presidency the reputation
which carries him into il.
We owe gratitude to France,
justice TO England, good will 70
all, subservience 10 none.
Laws and institutions must 90
hand and hand with the progress
of the human mind.
The whole body OF the nation is
the sovereign legislative. executive,
and judiciary power for itself.
The State and Federal Govern
ments are coordinate departments
of one single and integral whole.
A naval force can never eudan-
ger our liberties nor occasion
bloodshed; a land force would DO
both.
Opinions which are equally
honest on both sides should not al
feet personal esteem or social inter
course.
am not among those who fear
the people. They, and not the
rich, are our dependence for con-
tlnued freedom.
1t is better to keep the wolf ont Of
the fold than to trust TO drawing
his teeth and claws after he has
entered.
Never suppose that in any pos
slble situation or under any cir
cumstances it ia best for You to do
a dishOnOrable thing.
1t is fatal beresy 70 suppose
that either our State Governments
are superior to the Federal, or the
Federal to the State.
The press is the best instrument
for enlighteDlng the mind of man
and improving him as a rational,
moral, and social being.
Corruption of morals IN the mass
OF cultlvatOrs is phenomenon OF
which no age, nor nation, has ever
furnished an example.
The introduction of Que new
culture Is worth more TO a nation
than all the victories of the most
splendid battles of her history.
A representative Government,
made responsible at short periods
of election, produces the greatest
sum of happiness to mankind.
have but one system of ethics
for man aud for natiOns-tO be
grateful, to be faithful to all en-
under all circumstances.
The people are the only censors
of their governors, ard even their
errors will tend to keep these to
the true principles of their Instltu-
tons.
The cement of this Union is in
the heart.bloOd of every American.
do not believe there Is Oh earth
a Government established Oh 80
a basis.
Agriculture, manufacture, com
merce, and navigation, the tour
pillars of our prosperity, are the
most thriving when left most tree
to individual enterprise.
Educate aud inform the whole
mass of the people. Enable them
to see that it is their Interest to
preserve peace and order, and they
will preserve them.
profess so much OF the Roman
principle as TO deem it honorable
for the General of yesterday 70 act
as a corporal today. if his services
can be useful to his country.
This formidable censor of the
public functlOnaries, by arralgning
them at the tribunal OF public Opin-
ion, produces reform peaceably,
which must otherwise be done by
revolution.
Were it left TO me to decide
whether we should have Il Govern.
ment without newspapers, or news
papers without "a Government, |
should not hesitate a moment TO
prefer the latter.
He who is now against domestic
manufacture must be for reducing
us either to dependence on England
or to be clothed in skins and 70 live
like wild beasts in dens and
cayerns.
The way to have good govern
ment and safe government is not to
trust it all to one, but to divide It
among the many, distributing to
every one exactly the functions he
is competent to.
Whenever any one State IN the
American Union refuses obedience
to the confederation by which they
have bound them selves, the rest
have natural right 10 compel
them TO obedience.
The iunctiOnaries OF public pow
er rarely strengthen IN thelr dispo.
sltious TO abridge it, and an orgar-
lied call for timely amendment is
not likely to prevail against an
OTganlZeu opposition ~ H.
ItisOur business 70 mla iiactdcc
for ourselves whatever sc can, TO
keep our markets open Tor what we
eau spare Or want, and the less we
have To do with the antilles or rn.
mites OF Europe the better.
The New England townships are
the vital principle of their Govern
meuts, aud have proved themselves
the wisest invention ever devised
by man for the perfect exercise OF
sclf-government and tor IT. preser'
walton.
1t should be remembered, as an
axiom of eternal truth IN politics,
that whatever power in any Coz.