Thomas Jefferson was a heck of a man

[1srelluc]

Like many admirers of the Enlightenment, Jefferson was convinced that science and the scientific method held the keys to learning and education in the broadest sense. Jefferson promoted studies of natural history, botany, archeology, and architecture. His extensive library, the largest personal one in the United States by 1815, was a testament to his conviction that all subjects of learning fell within the purview of all learned men.



Everything the man did became the standard for that field of study.

He even destroyed his own family's power structure to advance Jeffersonian Republicanism.

 

[deannalw]

I don't think he's on the acceptable list of folks we can respect anymore.

So, you're a racist.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Like many admirers of the Enlightenment, Jefferson was convinced that science and the scientific method held the keys to learning and education in the broadest sense. Jefferson promoted studies of natural history, botany, archeology, and architecture. His extensive library, the largest personal one in the United States by 1815, was a testament to his conviction that all subjects of learning fell within the purview of all learned men.



Everything the man did became the standard for that field of study.

He even destroyed his own family's power structure to advance Jeffersonian Republicanism.

This is a great quote you screenshotted. Too bad the West is now divided by cults, including the political. It's difficult to envision progress and innovation under such blind obedience, be it police, activists (insert issue here), politicians, religion, race...on and on...

 

[Flash]

Thank god we had men like Jefferson back then.

If we would have Leftest idiots like are running the Democrat Party nowadays this country would have been a shithole from the get go.

 

[1srelluc]

I don't think he's on the acceptable list of folks we can respect anymore.

So, you're a racist.

Damn....

Fuck it, I'm a proud native-born Virginian.....The revisionists can eat the peanuts outta my shit.

 

[playtime]

Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists
The Final Letter, as Sent​

To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.

Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.
Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists (June 1998) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin