Musing & Test

This test is partly a musing, and partly to see if LJ is working for me at the moment (I've been having some problems with it.) I've been reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson's quotes today, in the midst of my work concerning Dominionism, and I've come to an interesting conclusion; there is a man I think I would have been happy to call friend, and brother. There are so many things he has said with which I agree and can lend my unfettered support. And while I have no illusions about him being infallible (he was a slaveowner despite supporting emancipation, and from at least one quote I have read he was staunchly against homosexuality to a positively violent degree) he is without a doubt one of the keenest minds I have ever had the pleasure of encountering on the written page. I will be referring to his writing a lot in the near future, as many of the things he faced in his day we face still in ours. I find both his thoughts and his sentiments inspiring, and will close with the following two quotes from him:

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."
From a letter of 1798, after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." -Thomas Jefferson