From Thomas Jefferson’s Second Inaugural address:
Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.
And let us reflect, that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and as capable of bitter persecutions.
5 responses to “Thomas Jefferson’s Thoughts About Mean-Spirited Politics”
What a wonderful quote! I printed it for my bulletin board.
Thanks!
Amen!
Good thoughts from a brilliant man. I wonder how he would fare in this day and age? Probably they’d have a skit about him on SNL. Thank you for your work. F.
This election has worn me out! I’m ready for it to be over but worried about some things too.
This is a wonderful quotation! Thank you!