Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the incompatibility of conquest with democratic principles.
Thomas Jefferson asserts that the idea of conquest conflicts with the foundational beliefs of a government that values liberty and democratic ideals. He suggests that a true government should not pursue expansion through force, as such actions undermine the principles of equality and self-governance that it represents.
In practice
In a political speech discussing the importance of maintaining peaceful relations with other countries.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.
Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.
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