No doubt you will recognize the popular wisdom of Thomas
Jefferson regarding Liberty, but are you familiar with what he said in a letter
to John Adams, late in his life? "To attain all this (universal republicanism),
however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet
the object is worth rivers of blood, and years of desolation." - September 4,
1823
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