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Book: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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  1. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever. . . . Such an addiction is the last degredation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
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  2. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    In his first year as president he received 1,881 letters, not including internal correspondence from his cabinet, and sent out 677 letters of his own. This
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  3. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.
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  4. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    How the right hand became disabled would be a long story for the left to tell," he wrote to William Stephens Smith. "It was by one of those follies from which good cannot come, but ill may.
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  5. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.
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  6. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence.
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  7. Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character

    Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.
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