Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

Monticello Jan. 22. 21.

the human mind will some day get back to the freedom it enjoyed 2000 years ago. this country, which has given to the world the example of physical liberty, owes to it that of moral emancipation also. for, as yet, it is but nominal with us.

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