What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine… — Thomas Jefferson
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment... Inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
1786
★ 6.2Provenance
Current citation
Jefferson, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private, edited by H. A. Washington. Vol. 9, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Original citation
Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier. 24 Jan. 1786.
