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“Jefferson advised him: “I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”34”
― Dan Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction—and What This Means Today

“He realized, perhaps more fully than anyone in his century, that the nature of man made it inevitable that a government would sooner or later founder in corruption.”
― Dan Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction—and What This Means Today