Joseph J. Ellis Quotes

The Second Paragraph Of The Declaration That Is Very Much An Expression Of Jefferson's Imagination. It Envisions A Perfect World, At Last Bereft Of Kings, Priests, And Even Government Itself. In This Never-never Land, Free Individuals Interact Harmoniously, All Forms Of Political Coercion Are Unnecessary Because They Have Been Voluntarily Internalized, People Pursue Their Own Different Versions Of Happiness Without Colliding, And Some Semblance Of Social Equality Reigns Supreme. As Lincoln Recognized, It Is An Ideal World That Can Never Be Reached On This Earth, Only Approached. And Each Generation Had An Obligation To Move America An Increment Closer To The Full Promise, As Lincoln Most Famously Did. The American Dream, Then, Is The Jeffersonian Dream Writ Large, Embedded In Language Composed During One Of The Most Crowded And Congested Moments In American History By An Idealistic Young Man Who Desperately Wished To Be Somewhere Else.

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