[Partisan Gunslinger]

Jefferson rewrote the bible to his liking. That's bad enough.

He backstabbed Washington, and when president disregarded his own philosophy with the Louisiana Purchase and establishment of the Navy...two things he would have hammered Washington over had Washington been the one presiding over these things.

Lincoln and Washington...our two best.

[Idabilly]

“Lincoln and Washington...our two best.”

Washington was man enough to secede from a Tyrannical Government.Lincoln cursed us with one.

Better be careful with the “Navy” talk. N-S is a Navy man himself.

[Doohickey]

Jefferson was in no way short of contradictions, but the Naval Act was passed during the Adams administration, as was the establishment of the Department of the Navy.

It was a standing Navy (and army for that matter) that Jefferson had a problem with. However the ongoing impressment of American into the Royal Navy, and especially the Chesapeake-Leopard affair in 1807, made it obvious that a standing military during peacetime was necessary to answer threats from without.