We the People part two
Discover fascinating people and ideas in American history and the Bible through short stories on This Week's Story mp3 audio and text for reading.
Thomas Jefferson, with courteous sarcasm, talks with the man who brutalized Thomas Paine.
click here to play audio“Thomas Paine is an amateur clown, gross and ill-educated. Why should anyone read his nonsense?”
“Sir, may I compliment you on your mastery of unfair description. What other qualifications do you have for judging Thomas Paine or his writing? I know that you are an English gentleman of the 1700’s. You are not accountable to people you believe to be inferior to yourself…
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