"The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness."
"American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . . The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event."
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Source: Dumas Malone (1951). “Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the rights of man”
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