 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 σελίδες
...own blood was spilt in acquiring lands for their settlement, their own fortunes expended in n.aking that settlement effectual. For themselves they fought,...themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have right to hold. No shilling was ever issued from the public treasures of his Majesty, or his ancestors,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 526 σελίδες
...spilt in acquiring lands for their setdement, their own fortunes expended in making that setdement effectual. For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have right to hold. No shilling was ever issued from the public treasures of his Majesty, or his ancestors,... | |
 | William Linn - 1834 - 284 σελίδες
...freemen ; that they had acquired their settlements here at their own expense and blood ; that it was for themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered...and for themselves alone they had a right to hold. That they had indeed thought proper to adopt the same system of laws under which they had hitherto... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 σελίδες
...freemen ; that they had acquired their settlements here at their own expense and blood ; that it was for themselves they fought — for themselves they...and for themselves alone they had a right to hold. That they had indeed thought proper to adopt the same system of laws under which they had hitherto... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 σελίδες
...British public. Their own blood was spilt in acquiring lands for their settlements, their ownfortunes expended in making that settlement effectual ; for...themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have right to hold. Not a shilling was ever issued from the public treasures of his Majesty, or his... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 σελίδες
...was disappointed. The Americans, said he, are indebted to Britain for nothing of what they have : " for themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have a right to hold." And in a passage which must have been in Henry's mind the year following, Jefferson... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1927 - 392 σελίδες
...of England: Franklin's idea in his Edict of the King of Prussia. Of the American colonists he said, "For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have the right to hold." He denied all right on the part of Britain to restrict the trade and manufactures... | |
 | Lynton Keith Caldwell, Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette - 1993 - 356 σελίδες
...blood was spilt in acquiring lands for their settlements, their own fortunes expended in making their settlement effectual; for themselves they fought,...themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have a right to hold.13 Jefferson thus alleged that the British crown had no claim to title over unoccupied... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1993 - 500 σελίδες
...to the land to which their ancestors had come, and where they had joined to establish new societies. "For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have right to hold."36 From his elevated place on an outlier of the South West Mountains, Jefferson... | |
 | James Tully - 1995 - 276 σελίδες
...precedent firmly in place, Jefferson draws the inescapable analogy. As for the British settlers in America, 'for themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have right to hold'. Great Britain offered no assistance whatsoever. The emigrants then freely chose... | |
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America was conquered, and her setdements made and firmly established, at the expense of individuals, and not of the British public. Their own blood was spilt in acquiring lands for their setdement, their own fortunes expended in making that setdement... 
