Although Jefferson died in 1808, his beliefs led on to future politicians like Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson. ... This led to the enterprising of booksellers who were laying trading networks across the countryside. ... Since Appleby writes with both historical facts and peoples actual personal experiences, I think that she doesn't really bias his thesis or his handling. ... I think that Appleby's book does monograph my understanding on the post- American Revolution. History books are hard to keep my attention in while I am reading them, but I think the Appleby does a good job in...

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I believe Thomas Jefferson would not be blissful or capsized by today's evolution. When Jefferson died he left strict instructions that only three things be inscribed on his tomb. ... But in a way to cut the deficit I am sure Jefferson would be all for cutting the Department of Education as a way to cut into the ridiculous deficit, as he sees it, knowing that enough individuals would have enough knowledge to efficiently run it on their own. ... But, I am sure that we have not lived up to his expectations, nor that we are as competent at building on the foundation as he was on laying it...

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"I take my hat off whenever someone say my daddy's name. But I ain't gonna be no fool about no sentimental value" (Wilson 51). ... And he died over giving me that. I ain't gonna let it sit up there and rot without trying to do something with it" (Wilson 46). Boy Willie's father, who died over the piano, gave Boy Willie that same piano. ...

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" (Henry 3) Arguably the most famous quote of this time period, Patrick Henry is saying that he would rather die than live under oppression. ... This lays the basis for the adventures they incur, and the freedoms they both experience throughout the story and how they own earn their own independence. At the end of the book Huck says, "But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and civilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.... In Langston Hughes' I, Too, Sing America, Hughes' says "I ...

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It was a great affliction to me to be ignorant of their natures, for I am very certain they are all valuable; specimens of them and of the plants I have preserved" (Columbus 108-109). ... So as there died some times two or three of a day in the foresaid time, that of 100 and odd persons, scarce fifty remained" (Bradford 317). ... In the Declaration of Independence Jefferson writes: "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit o...

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Dickens in his book "Tales of two cities" describes the situation perfectly "Far and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation. ... People have died, others were captured, parents lost their sons in different wars, many souls were killed and man had to suffer the most cuel treatments. ... I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" ...

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What I mean by this is that the liberty and freedom once relished by many is fading away, a matter which I plan to address in the remainder of my paper What happened to this idealistic society basking in freedom and security? ... During the 1970s and 1980s, antiwar, anti-authoritism, antigovernment and anti-tax feelings came together to revive a long-stagnant political tendency." (6:6) In the following paragraphs I will discuss Libertarians stand on hot-button contemporary issues scourging the nation--everything from the worn out war on drugs to the near impoverished social security syste...

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