• The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

    Thomas Jefferson: The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.432