Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 32

"e;I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all?"e; Jefferson muses in this volume. His answer: "e;I do not know that it is."e; Required by custom to be "e;entirely passive"e; during the presidential campaign, Jefferson, at Monticello during the summer of 1800, refrains from answering attacks on his character, responds privately to Benjamin Rush's queri...