...itself? I trust not I believe this, on the contrary; the strongest government on earth, I believe, is the only one where every man, at the call of the law,...that man cannot be trusted with the government of others. Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Oh, let history answer these questions....

...sort of patriotism Jefferson extolled in his First Inaugural. The Americans' republican government was "the only one where every man, at the call of the...of the public order as his own personal concern"; because it put all citizens on an equal plane and so transcended the internal conflicts and resistance...

...insisted that America had "the strongest Government on earth" because "the only one where every man . . . would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern."" The government did not need to invoke noble impulses or enthusiasm for universal creeds or worldwide...

...trust in the loyalty and devotion of the people. I believe [ours] the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call...invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. There would be no sedition acts. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or...

...reason is left free to combat it." Self-government is "the strongest government on earth" because it is "the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law; would meet invasions of public order, as his own personal concern." Jefferson explained his political...

...accepting so many heartfelt limitations, Jefferson will preside over "the strongest Government on earth," "one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law" (p. 493). Law, as Jefferson had expressed it and reformed it in Notes on the State of Virginia, represents...

...contrary, the strongest Government on earth. 1 believe it the only one where every man, at the call of law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the pubHe order as his own private concern." The speech closed with a brief summary of those principles...

...preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call...own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of...

...government can not be strong enough," he believed it "the strongest Government on earth," for it was "the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the Gospels, in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Second Series (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,...

...government was the "strongest on earth" because each citizen would voluntarily "fly to the standard of law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern." But later in that speech, Jefferson asserted that the president, not the citizens, would be the best...