THOMAS JEFFERSON ON GEORGE WASHINGTON: THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT BE KING The President was much inflamed; got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself; ran on much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed on him; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the government, which was not done on the purest motives; that he had never repented but once the having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since; that by God he had rather he in his grave than in his present situation; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made Emperor of the world; and yet that tltey were charging him with wanting to be a King. – Thomas Jefferson, The Anas, conference with President Washington, August 2, 1793; ME 1:382
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