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Despite his seeming satisfaction with the country’s original dimensions, Jefferson came to be known as an expansionist for his acquisition of Louisiana, which extended the country far west of the Mississippi. Yet that was more of an impulse buy than a considered purchase.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
Locke parle des Irlandais, en révolte endémique et désespérée contre la spoliation et l’oppression exercées par les colons anglais, en termes méprisants, comme d’une population de « brigands118 ».
Bernard Chamayou • Contre-histoire du libéralisme (POCHES ESSAIS t. 416) (French Edition)
I hope you go to Italy and Scotland and to places like Palenque because I think you will afterward see and understand your own country more clearly. That is an old idea, I know—that the country you learn most about by traveling abroad is your own —but then some old ideas bear repeating. But you must also go please to Monticello. Walk through the veg
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