Thomas Jefferson Quote

When our king goes out they [French people] fall down and kiss the earth…. Then they go to kissing one another. This is the truest wisdon. They have as much happiness in one year as one Englishman in ten.


quoted in Gore Vidal, Inventing a Nation, 2003


When our king goes out they [French people] fall down and kiss the earth…. Then they go to kissing one another. This is the truest wisdon. They...

When our king goes out they [French people] fall down and kiss the earth…. Then they go to kissing one another. This is the truest wisdon. They...

When our king goes out they [French people] fall down and kiss the earth…. Then they go to kissing one another. This is the truest wisdon. They...

When our king goes out they [French people] fall down and kiss the earth…. Then they go to kissing one another. This is the truest wisdon. They...