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Harlow Giles Unger _ First Founding Father: Richard
And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, "The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.… For now, the cry is power; give Congress power, without reflecting that every free nation that hath ever existed has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience and want of necessary caution.
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Harlow Giles Unger _ The Last Founding Father:
Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of injuring each other with the least detriment to themselves.
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Harlow Giles Unger _ Lafayette
obligations to the United States, ladies and gentlemen, far surpass the services I was able to render. These date back to the time when I had the good fortune to be adopted by the United States as one of her young soldiers, as a beloved son. The approbation of the American people . . . is the greatest reward I can receive. I have stood strong and held my head high whenever, in their name, I have proclaimed the American principles of liberty, equality and social order. I have devoted myself to these principles since I was a boy, and they will remain a sacred obligation to me until I take my final breath. . . . The greatness and prosperity of the United States are spreading the light of civilization across the world-a civilization based on liberty and resistance to oppression, with political institutions based on the rights of man and republican principles of government by the people.19"
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Harlow Giles Unger _ The Last Founding Father:
Monroe also saved Tom Paine, whose revolutionary fervor had inspired him to become a French citizen and win a seat in the Convention. When Paine voted against executing King Louis XVI, however, Robespierre sent him to prison, where he languished in ever-deteriorating health until Monroe rescued him in November 1794, and brought him to La Folie to recuperate.
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Harlow Giles Unger _ The Last Founding Father:
history informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave."18
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Harlow Giles Unger _ The Last Founding Father:
He was curious, courteous, open - never arrogant or condescending - and generous to a fault. Abigail Adams later noted his "agreeable affability," "unassuming manner," and "polite attentions to all orders and ranks"...
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Harlow Giles Unger _ The Last Founding Father:
At the end of June 1783, Monroe's first year of government service came to an end. Although he had accomplished nothing, he had done no less than his colleagues - which is exactly what Virginia planters had elected them to do.
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Harlow Giles Unger _ The Last Founding Father:
which are plainly adapted to that end,
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Harlow Giles Unger _ The Last Founding Father:
By March 1766, colonist boycotts had proved so costly to British merchants that Parliament repealed the stamp tax without having collected a single penny.
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Harlow Giles Unger _ John Quincy Adams
America is on the point of bursting into flames,
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Harlow Giles Unger _ The Last Founding Father:
He supported Jefferson's proposed Land Ordinance of 1784,22 ceding Virginia's western territory to Congress for division into fourteen future states in which "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude." Congress defeated the Ordinance by one vote.
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Harlow Giles Unger _ John Quincy Adams
Daniel Shays, a farmer struggling to keep his property, convinced neighbors that Boston legislators were colluding with judges and lawyers to raise property taxes and foreclose when farmers found it impossible to pay.
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