Thomas Jefferson: Author of America QUOTES

1 " This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history is a tragedy and not a morality tale "

― Christopher Hitchens , Thomas Jefferson: Author of America

3 " Jefferson writes dismissively of slaves that “their griefs are transient.” American white supremacists to this day maintain that blacks are “mud people” because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing—they are not capable of summoning “blood in the face,” as the "

― Christopher Hitchens , Thomas Jefferson: Author of America

5 " Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans, we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. "

― Christopher Hitchens , Thomas Jefferson: Author of America

7 " Quebec. "

― Christopher Hitchens , Thomas Jefferson: Author of America