He was for liberty without restraint - in short, avarice and hedonism. I suggest you read what the Founders had to say about unrestrained human nature. The chaos of unlimited human appetite leads to anarchy and will surely lead to more government control. HST never knew a moment of moderation or self-control in his life. Mistaking a dissipated hedonist for a champion of liberty is something you need to rethink - IMHO.
He was for liberty without restraint - in short, avarice and hedonism.
I'll grant he was a hedonist in the pleasure loving sense. Avaricious? - I doubt he died a particularly wealthy man. In any case why would another mans pleasures or greediness affect you the point of dissing him at death?
I suggest you read what the Founders had to say about unrestrained human nature. The chaos of unlimited human appetite leads to anarchy and will surely lead to more government control.
I suspect I've read, [and understood] far more about what our founders hoped to accomplish with our Constitutional system that you.. They were far more concerned with insuring individual freedoms than with controlling them.
HST never knew a moment of moderation or self-control in his life. Mistaking a dissipated hedonist for a champion of liberty is something you need to rethink - IMHO.
I've never mistook Hunter as a 'champion'; -- he just fought the good fight against control freaks his whole life.
That he loved liberty, and wrote about it well was enough for me.