Most Blessed of the Patriarchs Quotes

“Adams and Jefferson exchanged a series of letters comparing the virtues of the French character to the dour and gloomy English: the French “have as much happiness in one year as an Englishman in ten,”
― Annette Gordon-Reed, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

“The truth of Voltaire’s observation offers itself perpetually,” he told Bellini, that every man in Europe “must be either the hammer or the anvil.”
― Annette Gordon-Reed, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination