The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-11
SAYINGS BY JEFFERSON.

Every society has a right to fix the
fundamental principles of its association
and to say to all individuals that If they
contemplate pursuits beyond the limits
of these principles, and involving dan
gers which the society chooses to avoid,
they must go elsewhere for their exercise.
If ever this vast country Is brought un-
der a single government 1t will be one or
the most extensive corruption, Indifferent
and incapable of wholesome care over
so wide a spread of surface.
1t is for the benefit of mankind to miti-
gate the horrors of war as much as pos
sible.
1t is not enough that honest men are ap-
pointed judges. All know the influence OF
interest on the mind of man and how
unconsciously his Judgment is warped by
that influence.
The example OF four president volun-
tarily retiring at the end of their eighth
year, and the progress OF public opinion
that the principle is salutary, have given
it in practice the force of precedent and
usage; insomuch, that, should a president
consent to be a candidate for third cleo
tion, trust he would be rejected on this
demonstration of ambitious views.
That 1Ou lawyers SnOulu 40 DuSlneSS TO-
gether ought not TO be expected.
am for free commerce with all ma
tions; political connections with none,
and little or no diplomatic establishment.
The European nations constitute a sepa-
rate division of the globe; they have a set
of interests of their own in which 1t is
our business never to engage ourselves.
The excise law is an internal one. The
first error was to admit 1t by the consti-
tuition, the second to act on that admis-
sion.
Private charities as we'll as contributions
to public purposes, in proportion to every
ones circumstances, are certainly among
the debts we owe to society.
Great cities are pestilential to the NOR
ais, the health, and the liberties of man.
Independence can be trusted nowhere
but with the people in mass. They are
inherently independent of all but moral
law.
It should be remembered as an axiom
of eternal truth in politics that whatever
power in any government is Independent
is absolute also; in theory only at first,
while the spirit of the people is up, but
in practice as fast as that relaxes.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book
of wisdom.
Our greediness for wealth and fantasti-
cal expenses have degraded, and will de-
grnde the minds of our maritime citizens.
These are the peculiar vices of commerce.
A single good government becomes a
blessing to the whole earth.
That we should wish to see the people
of other countries free is as natural and
at least as justihable as that one king
should wish TO see the kings of other
countries maintained In their despotism.
No national crime passes unpunished in
the long run.
The dead have no rights. They are
nothing, and nothing cannot own some-
thing.
This corporeal globe and everything
upon Il belongs to its present corporeal
inhabitants during their generations.
| They alone have a right TO direct what
| Is the concern OF themselves alone, and
to declare the law OF that direction, and
this declaration can only be made by
their majority.
Private fortune are destroyed by public
as well as by private extravaganza.
Was there ever a proposition so plair
as to pass congress without a debate?
The boisterous sea of liberty is never
without wave.
The idea OF geographical line once
! suggested viii brood In the minds OF al