"[I]f ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence."
— Thomas Jefferson

January 1, 1970

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Letter to John W. Eppes (6 November 1813). Reported in Albert Ellery Bergh, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1907), p. 430