Dated.
Thomas Jefferson – one of my long-time heroes – was convinced that he
and his friends blew the chance they had to establish true freedom in
America. I know that a hundred thousand self-praising textbooks,
speeches, pundits and songs claim that Jefferson and the rest established freedom, but that’s NOT what Jefferson thought, and that is NOT what he said. (You can choose who to believe for yourself.)
Here is a letter that Jefferson wrote to John Cartwright on June 5th, 1824. Jefferson’s words are in plain text and my modern paraphrasing of the lines are in italics:
Our Revolution presented us an album on
which we were free to write what we pleased. Yet we did not avail
ourselves of all the advantages of our position.
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A very good piece.
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