...I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress them within the narrowest...compass they will bear, stating the general principle, hut not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious...

...deem the essential principles of our Government, and, consequently, those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress them within the narrowest...compass they will bear— stating the general principle, bul not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious...

...I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principles, but not all its limitations. Equaland exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion,...

...of the first executive office of our country." Thomas Jefferson declared those principles to be—" Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; for having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and...

...I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress them within the narrowest...governments in all their rights, as the most competent administration for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies...

...advice given by Washington on this subject. Its policy, to use the language of Jefferson, has been : "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever State...; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none ;" and it is most devoutly to be hoped that there must be other...

...preservation of the public faith. "Economy in the public expenses, that labor may be lightly burdened. "Equal and exact justice to all men. of whatever State or persuasion. r. l ligious or political — freedom of religión." and their clerks, $1113.700; Postofflce Department....

...I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress them within the narrowest...governments in all their rights, as the most competent administration for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwark against anti-republican tendencies...

...administration." — " Equal and exact justice to all men" — " Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none....support of the State Governments in all their rights." " The preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor...

...reserved to them. One of the most distinguished of my predecessors attached deserved importance to " the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administration for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwark against anti-republican tendencies...