...inaugural address of President Jefferson twenty-four years previous to that year. Jefferson spoke of "the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty" in the French Revolution. Let America remember that free speech, and respect for the opinions of others,...

...irrationality (both in the sense of justifying it and presenting it as rational). He excused it as "the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty." Speaking of the terror during the French Revolution he staunchly supported, he regretted the tragic...

...intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and as capable of as hitter and bloody persecutions. During the tbroes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking tbrough blood and slaughter his long-lost liherty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the hillows...

...In his inaugural, Jefferson places his disagreement with the Alien and Sedition Acts in this light: During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world,...infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant...

...proceeds to deliver his memorable evocation of the national self-image. It bears quotation in full: During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world,...slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore; that this should be more...

...oppression." Jefferson then hazarded a reference to the wars in Europe, including the French Revolution ("the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking...through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty"), which had caused Americans to divide their sympathies. Admitting that Americans of different political...

...we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and as capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During...slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful [surprising] that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore; that...

...bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions....throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonising spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was...

...liberty and even life itself are but dreary things." The stipulated dreariness in life comes not from the "the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty," though Jefferson alludes to that record of unhappiness, but from the personal misery that individuals...

...and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions....throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonising spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long lost liberty, it was...