Monday, May 06, 2013

Monarchies

"I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have seen what they are. There is scarcely an evil known in these countries, which may not be traced to their king, as its source, nor a good, which is not derived from the small fibres of republicanism existing among them."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Washington, May 2, 1788

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