The colonists were fortunate to have a brilliant patriot like Jefferson that could also express himself elegantly and with powerful intellectual foundations through the written word. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and could any man or woman alive at that time have put words on paper any more brilliantly than patriot Jefferson? That's a rhetorical question, but when he wrote: "…We hold these truths to be self-evident… that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" (Behrman, 52). Indeed the Declaration of Independence "crisply set for the bill of particular grievances against the reigning sovereign and compressed a whole cosmology, a political philosophy, and a national creed in one paragraph" (Encyclopedia of World Biography).

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How great a patriot was Jefferson? That is a question that is answered not in...
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