Thomas Jefferson’s Greatest Advice for Pursuing American Happiness

America's 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson. [Photo by The Library of Congress]

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There is Jefferson the man with perhaps the greatest résumé in the history of American politics: a revolutionary member of the Second Continental Congress, where he wrote the soaring prose of the Declaration of Independence; an ambassador to France where, he took over for Benjamin Franklin; a consequential governor of Virginia; the first secretary of state; the second vice president and third president.

By Jeremy Adams via National Review