Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, September 4, 1823
Thomas Jefferson September 4, 1823 Jefferson believed that the mind-numbing power of clergy in Europe made citizens there less likely to rebel. DEAR SIR, Your letter of Aug. 15. was recieved in due time, and with the welcome of every thing which comes from you. With it’s opinions on the difficulties of revolutions, from despotism to freedom, I very much concur. The generation which commences a revolution can rarely compleat it. Habituated from their infancy to passive submission of body…