Fellow citizens,
My deepest concern for your liberty, prosperity and happiness has returned with this new breath. In the spirit of friendship, let your voices be heard and your opinions and stories be told. Let this country, which gave the world the example of democracy and freedom, become a subject of my comprehension once again.
Are you living the legacy? Are you leaving one? - TJ
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“You will find me in habitual good health, great contentedness, enfeebled in body, impaired in memory, but without decay.”
Jefferson to Caesar Rodney, Monticello, March 16, 1815.
“Time is everyday adding to the improbabilities of my undertaking a long journey.”
Jefferson to Janet Livingston Montgomery, Monticello, Sept. 4 1816.
“It is a law of nature that the generations of men should give way, one to another, and I hope that the one now on the stage will preserve for their sons the political blessings delivered into their hands by their fathers. Time indeed changes manners and notions… but time produces also corruption of principals, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch.”
Jefferson to Spencer Roane, March 9 1821.
