Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.


The Life of Albert Gallatin (ed. 1879)

Henry Adams Quotes

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle,...

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle,...

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle,...

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle,...