Try to imagine any U.S. president since you were born expressing such a complex, sophisticated and pro-liberty concept as this, and stated in such elegant construction. Then imagine any but a minority of Americans being able to actually understand it, and you have yourself a handy measure of how far we have sunk. "I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it. If they would but dispassionately weigh the blessings they will throw away, against an abstract principle more likely to be effected by union than by scission, they would pause before they would perpetrate this act of suicide on themselves, and of treason against the hopes of the world." -- Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820)
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