Sully, Thomas Jefferson, 1821
Thomas Jefferson was born on this day in 1743.
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier, January 24, 1786
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