The hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.


Letter to Edward Coles (25 August 1814).

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation....

The hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation....

The hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation....

The hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation....