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In spite of these rare abilities, Jefferson was not a hero. His great achievements were words. Except for the Louisiana Purchase, his actions as president fall short. But those words! He was the author of the Declaration of Independence. The second paragraph begins with a perfect sentence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Those words, as the historian Samuel Eliot Morison has said, “are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, a continual challenge to ourselves, as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world.”
:michael-laugh:
Tell us how far you get. Apparently it’s so bad that Libertarian think tanks can’t even be assed to pretend to like this book and his baby brained takes.
It thought we were supposed to be throwing our batteries in the ocean and now here’s China going and fishing them out. :rage-cry:
If antifa got this close to him he’d be dead, but libs and fascists are the bestest of friends, even making handicrafts for each other.