The Secret History of the World

Belmont Club ^ | August 10, 2010 | Richard Fernandez

[decimon]

One of the most common question successful revolutionaries ask themselves afterward is ‘what have I done?’ During their retirement John Adams and Thomas Jefferson grappled with the question of what actually happened during the Revolution. Jefferson’s answer was that no one could ever describe it. “Nobody; except merely it’s external facts. All it’s councils … which are the life and soul of history must be forever unknown.”

Adam’s memorable response was to question whether the Revolution happened when people thought it did. Their exchange frames the great debates of today in the most striking form. Where is this crisis leading? And when is it happening? To some extent the crisis is unfolding in the change in attitudes that are taking place today. It is entirely possible that today is the revolution.

[decimon]

Just cuz ping.

[Talisker]

Jefferson: "What do we Mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People."

American Freedom is the Doctrine of Negative Rights.

Every shred of Leftist warfare is designed to obliterate this knowledge from the American people.

All else is trivia.

[ADSUM]

Americans had God on their side.

Their cause was just and truly benefited its citizens.

[SunkenCiv]

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[arthurus]

Its.
It’s = it is.

[Verginius Rufus]

The words you have attributed to Jefferson are actually from Adams’ response.

[Rocky]

The comments to the article are amazing.

The winds of war.

[griffin]

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