When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.


Life of Thomas Jefferson (ed. 1834)

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, ...

When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, ...

When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, ...

When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, ...