Episode 355: 5 Days of Christmas Immortals – Thomas Jefferson, Part 2
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
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🗓️ 1 January 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Part 2 - Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Newt talks about Jefferson’s life and legacy. Part of the Immortals leadership series.
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| 1:04.0 | On this episode of Newt's World we're going to take up part two of our discussion of Thomas Jefferson as an American Immortal. |
| 1:16.0 | Jefferson is a remarkable figure and a very complex figure. |
| 1:21.0 | He was on the one hand a pretty mediocre governor of Virginia who didn't very effectively prosecute the Revolutionary War in that role. |
| 1:30.0 | On the other hand, he was one of the greatest writers about human freedom in the entire history of human beings and the Declaration of Independence, which in many ways is largely Jefferson's product, |
| 1:42.0 | is still an amazing document, the centerpiece of freedom for the whole planet indicating that power doesn't come from kings or dictators or political parties, power comes from God, and that every American, every human being is in fact empowered by God with certain unalienable rights among which are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. |
| 2:12.0 | On the one hand Jefferson was a very idealistic person. On the other hand he's a very sophisticated subtle and often duplicitous politician and both are somehow captured in the same person. |
| 2:32.0 | He's a man of great principles, but on the other hand as you'll see as President he sometimes broke those principles in amazing ways. The term Jeffersonian Democrat for a very long time meant somebody who was for limited government, was for lower expenses and was essentially very, very suspicious of power in Washington. |
| 2:54.0 | But at the same time as you'll see this is a guy who bought half a continent. He's a person who sent the Marines in the Navy to the shores of Tripoli without telling Congress. |
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