Life of Jefferson (Rayner), p. 356.
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Notes on Virginia. Query xviii. Manners.
Footnotes
[434:2] See Bolingbroke, page [304].
[434:3] All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.—Constitution of Massachusetts.
[435:1] This passage is thus paraphrased by John B. McMaster in his "History of the People of the United States" (ii. 586): "One sentence will undoubtedly be remembered till our republic ceases to exist. 'No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying,' he observed, 'as to put the right man in the right place.'"
[435:2] Usually quoted, "Few die and none resign."
[436:1] See Appendix, page [859].