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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

This volume features a comprehensive compilation of Thomas Jefferson's correspondence from 1771 to 1779, offering insights into his political thought and actions during the formative years of the American Revolution. It also includes a summary view of his work and the historic Declaration of Independence, which he drafted. more

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Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, a distinguished politician, philosopher, architect, and scientist. He was born on April 13, 1743, and died on July 4, 1826. Jefferson advocated for democracy and freedom in politics and was one of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence. His political ideas had a profound impact on the founding and development of the United States. more

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786
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“Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798
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“We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.”

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Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
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“It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
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Author:Mark Victor Hansen
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