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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1583104)	1/12/2026 7:13:05 PM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586843

If you want to read something really chilling, read the words of this upstart... "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion; what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787 "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson "If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want for bread." -- Thomas Jefferson "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels ... to govern him?" --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801 "It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all." -- Thomas Jefferson to Francois D'Ivernois, 1795 "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive." -- Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787 "When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." -- Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12/20/1787 "[If government have] a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if we do not comply with it, [this would leave] us without anything we can call property." -- Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Lord North, 1775. Papers, 1:233 "The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management." -- Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kerchevall, 1816 "Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power.... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1799 "Most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1583104)	1/12/2026 7:13:37 PM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Respond to of 1586843

British politicians, pamphleteers, and newspapers hurled some remarkably vicious insults at Thomas Jefferson—especially during and after the American Revolution. Here are some of the worst (and most revealing) things they called him, with context. Political & Moral Attacks “The American Caligula” Likened Jefferson to the notoriously depraved Roman emperor—suggesting tyranny, moral corruption, and dangerous ambition. “A fanatic in philosophy” A common British jab portraying him as an impractical radical whose Enlightenment ideas threatened social order. “An enemy to religion” / “Atheist” British critics repeatedly accused Jefferson of irreligion and godlessness, particularly because of his views on church–state separation. Personal Character Assassinations “A coward” After Jefferson fled Richmond in 1781 during a British raid, Tory writers mocked him as weak and unmanly, unfit for leadership. “A hypocrite of liberty” This line attacked the contradiction between Jefferson’s rhetoric on freedom and his ownership of enslaved people—an accusation British polemicists eagerly exploited. “A seditious scribbler” Used to belittle his role as principal author of the Declaration of Independence, implying he was merely a dangerous propagandist. Satire & Caricature “That prating philosopher of Virginia” “Prating” meant idle or foolish talk—casting Jefferson as an overeducated windbag detached from reality. “The penman of rebellion” Meant as an insult, suggesting he hid behind words rather than honor or arms—though history has been kinder to that “crime.” Why the British Were So Hostile Jefferson uniquely enraged British elites because he: Articulated rebellion in universal moral language Grounded resistance in Enlightenment philosophy Made British rule look not merely mistaken, but illegitimate In short, he didn’t just rebel—he intellectually embarrassed them.