Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas C. Flournoy
| Monticello Oct. 1. 12. |
you probably do not know mr Madison personally, or at least intimately as I do. I have known him from 1779. when he first came into the public councils; and from three & thirty years trial, I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, & devoted to genuine republicanism; nor could I, in the whole scope of America & Europe point out an abler head ... what man can do will be done by mr Madison.
PoC (DLC). Published in PTJRS, 5:368–9.
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