No, that would be Andrew Jackson's style. Thomas Jefferson would have banished him as a degenerate and then written a quip praising the right to carry a gun or sword for just such an occasion:
''When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.''
''Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [political offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.''
''Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.''
''The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.''
''Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.''
''When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.''
''A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.''
''The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.''
''Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.''
''We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.''
''Every human being, my dear, must thus be viewed according to what it is good for, for none of us, no not one, is perfect; and were we to love none who had imperfections, this world would be a desert for our love.''
''With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, and to need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.''
[–] con77 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Jefferson would have run him through with a sword and not given it a second thought.
[–] novictim 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
No, that would be Andrew Jackson's style. Thomas Jefferson would have banished him as a degenerate and then written a quip praising the right to carry a gun or sword for just such an occasion:
''When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.''
''Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [political offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.''
''Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.''
''The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.''
''Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.''
''When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.''
''A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.''
''The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.''
''Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.''
''We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.''
''Every human being, my dear, must thus be viewed according to what it is good for, for none of us, no not one, is perfect; and were we to love none who had imperfections, this world would be a desert for our love.''
[–] lord_nougat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Jefferson was a fucking classy guy.
[–] con77 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's the one