IT WAS LIBERTY

Recollect their amazing fortitude, their bitter sufferings! Recollect the civil and religious principles and hopes and expectations, which constantly supported and carried them through all hardships, and patience and resignation! Let us recollect it was liberty!


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Reblogged from foundingfatherfest
“ Mrs. Jefferson has at last shaken off her tormenting pains by yielding to them, and has left our friend inconsolable. I ever thought him to rank domestic happiness in the first class of the chief good; but I scarcely supposed, that his grief would be so violent, as to justify the circulating report, of his swooning away, whenever he sees his children.

Edmund Randolph to James Madison on the death of Martha Jefferson.

;_;

(via foundingfatherfest)

Thomas and Martha’s love does not get enough attention (probably because it is way less interesting than his relationship with her enslaved half-sister). But I think knowing how much losing her shook him up is on the top five things you need to know to understand Jefferson.

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