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* I advance with obedience to the work, '''ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make'''.
* I advance with obedience to the work, '''ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make'''.
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==== First State of the Union Address (1801) ====
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:[[s:Thomas Jefferson's First State of the Union Address|Thomas Jefferson's First State of the Union Address]]
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* Considering the general tendency to multiply offices and dependencies and to increase expense to the ultimate term of burden which the citizen can bear, it behooves us to avail ourselves of every occasion which presents itself for taking off the surcharge; that it never may be seen here that, after leaving to labor the smallest portion of its earnings on which it can subsist, Government shall itself consume the whole residue of what it was instituted to guard.
==== First Presidential Administration (1801-1805) ====
==== First Presidential Administration (1801-1805) ====
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**Letter to [[w:Gouverneur Morris|Gouverneur Morris]], (Washington, 1 Nov. 1801)[http://books.google.com/books?ei=QCErUJm8Isa40QGxpYGQDw&id=g40TAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22moderation+in+the+use+of+their+strength%22+%22prc%22&q=+%22gouverneur+morris+1+november%22#search_anchor]. In ''The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 35: 1 August to 30 November 1801'', Barbara B. Oberg, ed., [[w:Princeton University Press|Princeton]], 2008, ISBN 0691137730 ISBN 9780691137735, p. 545. [http://books.google.com/books?id=g40TAQAAMAAJ&q=%22we+are+already+about+the+7th.+of+the+Christian+nations+in+population%22&dq=%22we+are+already+about+the+7th.+of+the+Christian+nations+in+population%22&source=bl&ots=l-3X05AYj4&sig=5A2f5Vb2jWfHIp_u-GWCr57V3Wk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xBorUKeTD4Sa8gTI14Eo&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ]
Editor's notes at bottom of letter: PrC (DLC); at foot of text: ''"Gouverneur Morris esq." 1 Word underlined''. [PrC=press copy; DLC= Library of Congress. ''See'' "EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS", sec. 3, "Descriptive Symbols," xvi-xvii[http://books.google.com/books?ei=QCErUJm8Isa40QGxpYGQDw&id=g40TAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22moderation+in+the+use+of+their+strength%22+%22prc%22&q=%22editorial+method+and+apparatus%22#search_anchor] Editor notes that "All manuscripts of the above types are assumed to be in the hand of the author of the document to which the descriptive symbol pertains."). In manuscript to G. Morris, Jefferson underlined the word ''own.''] [http://books.google.com/books?id=g40TAQAAMAAJ&q=%22moderation+in+the+use+of+their+strength%22+%22prc%22&dq=%22moderation+in+the+use+of+their+strength%22+%22prc%22&source=bl&ots=l-3X05B3f4&sig=zI61eSTLmF8oS_39uH_czY69CEo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QCErUJm8Isa40QGxpYGQDw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA]
**Letter to [[w:Gouverneur Morris|Gouverneur Morris]], (Washington, 1 Nov. 1801)[http://books.google.com/books?ei=QCErUJm8Isa40QGxpYGQDw&id=g40TAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22moderation+in+the+use+of+their+strength%22+%22prc%22&q=+%22gouverneur+morris+1+november%22#search_anchor]. In ''The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 35: 1 August to 30 November 1801'', Barbara B. Oberg, ed., [[w:Princeton University Press|Princeton]], 2008, ISBN 0691137730 ISBN 9780691137735, p. 545. [http://books.google.com/books?id=g40TAQAAMAAJ&q=%22we+are+already+about+the+7th.+of+the+Christian+nations+in+population%22&dq=%22we+are+already+about+the+7th.+of+the+Christian+nations+in+population%22&source=bl&ots=l-3X05AYj4&sig=5A2f5Vb2jWfHIp_u-GWCr57V3Wk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xBorUKeTD4Sa8gTI14Eo&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ]
Editor's notes at bottom of letter: PrC (DLC); at foot of text: ''"Gouverneur Morris esq." 1 Word underlined''. [PrC=press copy; DLC= Library of Congress. ''See'' "EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS", sec. 3, "Descriptive Symbols," xvi-xvii[http://books.google.com/books?ei=QCErUJm8Isa40QGxpYGQDw&id=g40TAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22moderation+in+the+use+of+their+strength%22+%22prc%22&q=%22editorial+method+and+apparatus%22#search_anchor] Editor notes that "All manuscripts of the above types are assumed to be in the hand of the author of the document to which the descriptive symbol pertains."). In manuscript to G. Morris, Jefferson underlined the word ''own.''] [http://books.google.com/books?id=g40TAQAAMAAJ&q=%22moderation+in+the+use+of+their+strength%22+%22prc%22&dq=%22moderation+in+the+use+of+their+strength%22+%22prc%22&source=bl&ots=l-3X05B3f4&sig=zI61eSTLmF8oS_39uH_czY69CEo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QCErUJm8Isa40QGxpYGQDw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA]
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===== First State of the Union Address (1801) =====
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:[[s:Thomas Jefferson's First State of the Union Address|Thomas Jefferson's First State of the Union Address]] (8 December 1801)
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* Considering the general tendency to multiply offices and dependencies and to increase expense to the ultimate term of burden which the citizen can bear, it behooves us to avail ourselves of every occasion which presents itself for taking off the surcharge; that it never may be seen here that, after leaving to labor the smallest portion of its earnings on which it can subsist, Government shall itself consume the whole residue of what it was instituted to guard.
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==== First Presidential Administration (cont'd) ====
* They have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved and fed from the Treasury; and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased.
* They have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved and fed from the Treasury; and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased.
** Letter to J. Dickinson (Dec. 19, 1801).
** Letter to J. Dickinson (Dec. 19, 1801).
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==== Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809) ====
==== Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809) ====
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=====Sixth State of the Union Address (1806)=====
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:[[s:Thomas Jefferson's Sixth State of the Union Address|Thomas Jefferson's Sixth State of the Union Address]] (2 December 1806)
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*The question therefore now comes forward, To what other objects shall these surpluses be appropriated, and the whole surplus of impost, after the entire discharge of the public debt, and during those intervals when the purposes of war shall not call for them? Shall we suppress the impost and give that advantage to foreign over domestic manufactures? On a few articles of more general and necessary use the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid are foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them.
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:Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of Federal powers. By these operations new channels of communications will be opened between the States, the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties. Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which though rarely called for are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country and some of them to its preservation.
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:*Advising the origination of an annual fund to be spent through new constitutional powers (by new amendments) from projected surplus revenue.
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==== Second Presidential Administration (cont'd) ====
* Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
* Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
** Letter to [[Andrew Jackson]] (3 December 1806).
** Letter to [[Andrew Jackson]] (3 December 1806).