Hmmm

“The memory of Jefferson, however, has allowed America’s worldly success to be spiced with the rhetoric of something grander, more noble; of self-evident truths and the tree of liberty. This matters. If America were only an economic success, its people would be less proud of it, and its influence on the rest of the world would have been less great.” The Cracks in Thomas Jefferson, The Economist, April 17, 1993.