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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;slyjoh, post: 183275, member: 7439&quot;]<b>Love those Nickels!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hi, I&#039;m new to this message board and stumbled upon this neat contest. I understand that the correct original context for each quote is required plus its origin (letter, speech, etc.). Here&#039;s my go at it. Please excuse any odd spaces or fonts or oversites. Phew... I&#039;m exhausted from all this enlightening research. Time to retire &lt;yawn&gt;... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll list the number/s with context and explanation. The origin of each quote is in brackets.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 &amp; 2: Context: REASON and TRUTH</p><p>The Founding Fathers introduced the revolutionary idea that government focused on the reasoned choice of the people as opposed to authoritarian domination and government control, where people were suppressed by the wealthy and educated.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A government of reason is better than one of force&quot; (Letter to Richard Rush, 1820).</p><p>&quot;God has bestowed reason... as the umpire of truth&quot; (Letter to Miles King, 1814).</p><p><br /></p><p>3: Context: THE RIGHT TO LIFE AND LIBERTY</p><p>All persons have equal rights and the government is responsible to, and derives its powers from, a free people. Jefferson viewed this idea as intrinsic in the nature of man. The Declaration of Independence summarizes the inalienable rights of the people as the basis for a free society and for a just government to protect those rights. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;That liberty is pure which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone&quot; (Letter to Horatio Gates, 1798).</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Context: FREEDOM OF RELIGION</p><p>Freedom of religion is a civil right and is vital in a free society. Religious institutions should not use government power to force views on persons of various faiths, or of no faith. In a free society, there needs to be separation between the church and the state to avoid religious chaos and indifference of the clergy to their people. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own&quot; (Letter to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814).</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Context: FOREIGN RELATIONS (PEACE FOR ALL NATIONS)</p><p>The United States was founded on unique principles as compared to other nations. Rather than stressing conquest and power, its principles were based on peace and prosperity, thus evading its involvement with other nations. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object&quot; (Letter to C. W. F. Dumas, 1793).</p><p><br /></p><p>6 – 11. Context: PEACE AND WAR </p><p>Free societies stressed happiness and prosperity of the people, best practiced by peace. This concept was different from the nations which utilized their country’s resources for the sake of conquest resulting in debt and destruction. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Peace is our most important interest, and a recovery from debt&quot; (Letter to William Short, 1801).</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Wars and contentions indeed fill the pages of history with more matter. But more blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say. This is what I ambition for my own country&quot; (Letter to Comte Diodati, 1807).</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles&quot; (Letter to Robert Livingston, 1801).</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;No citizen should be free to commit his country to war&quot; (Letter to James Monroe, 1793).</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The criminal attempts of private individuals to decide for their country the question of peace or war, by commencing active and unauthorized hostilities, should be promptly and efficaciously suppressed” (6th Annual Message, 1806).</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest&quot; (Letter to William Short, 1791).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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