Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge
| Paris July 18. 1788 |
we can surely boast of having set the world a beautiful example of a government reformed by reason alone without bloodshed. But the world is too far oppressed to profit of the example.
PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 13:377–79.
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