Thomas Jefferson Quote

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.


Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers (ed. 1829)


I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known...

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known...

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known...

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known...