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Essay Archive - Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
No golden eagle, warm from the stamping press of the mint, is more sharply
impressed with its image and superscription than was the formative period
of our government by the genius and personality of Thomas Jefferson.
Standing on the threshold of the nineteenth century, no one who attempted
to peer down the shadowy vista, saw more clearly than he the possibilities,
the perils, the pitfalls and the achievements that were within the grasp of
the Nation. None was inspired by purer patriotism. None was more sagacious,
wise and prudent, and none understood his countrymen better.
By birth an aristocr....
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