...conserve and apply in the administration of the government, these great and inimitable principles: (i) Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; (2) peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliance with none; (3) support...

...unless the FEDERAL character of our Government is maintained. In Jefferson's words, we must cherish " the support of the State Governments in all their rights as the most competent administrators of our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-Repullican tendencies"...

...considered the essential principles and purposes of our government in his inaugural address, as follows: "Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state...governments in all their rights as the most competent administration for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwark against anti-republican tendencies;...

...government; and the selection for public offices of those who are honest and best fitted to fill them ; the support of the state governments in all their rights as the most competent administrations of our •domestic concerns aud the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies ; and the preservation...

...Consul, said, " Let there be no more Jacobins, nor moderates, nor royalists : let all be Frenchmen ! " state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." Few die, and none resign. In a letter to a committee of the...

...Although spoken 183 years ago, the words still ring true. Our desire in foreign affairs, he said, was "equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state...political; peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations. ..." I heard an echo of these sentiments last August in La Paz when you, Mr. President, said,...

...Listing the essential principles of government in his first inaugural address, Jefferson began with: "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political." While he certainly believed in the procedural justice of our legal system, he could not forget that...

...the Democratic Register of New Haven featured a line from Jefferson under the nameplate on page one: "Equal and Exact Justice to All Men, Of Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious or Political."24 During elections, papers demonstrated their loyalty to their party by running the names...

...system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked." J. Fenimore Cooper, 1838 Commerce, peace and friendship: "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state...political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none . . . these principles form the bright constellation which...

...campaign. It was, in essence, a statement — the first comprehensive one — of American Liberalism. "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state...political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." Jefferson envisioned an evenhanded, unobtrusive government...