The American Revolution of 1800 Quotes

“He realized, perhaps more fully than anyone in his century, that the nature of man made it inevitable that a government would sooner or later founder in corruption.”
― Dan Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction—and What This Means Today

“Jefferson advised him: “I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”34”
― Dan Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction—and What This Means Today