“We were eager for immigrants to come from Europe. In the beginning, we had a very favorable and generous immigration system.”
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Further Reading
- Founders Online: Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816: "if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be."
Jefferson 101 is a series of biographical shows about the life of Thomas Jefferson that ran from 2016 to 2017.
Jefferson was a pragmatic utopian, and a utopian pragmatist.
I’m a devoted American patriot. I love this country, but I want it to be more like the country I love than the disillusioned, vulgar, and divisive place it has become.
"Two seraphs await me long shrouded in death; I will bear them your love on my last parting breath."
— Thomas Jefferson, July 1826
We conclude our Jefferson 101 biographical series by discussing his final days at Monticello, his legacy, and the deaths of both Jefferson and John Adams on July 4th, 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.