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It is not in order to hoard that the Americans are rapacious.

François-Alexandre-Frédéric,

Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 1747-1827

Travels .., London, 1799

Bancroft Library, University of California

As Governor, Ronald Reagan proposed to sell the collections of this repository. They survive.

Henry Adams

The Jeffersonian Transformation

  Passages from The History of the United States

  During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
  (1889-91)

New York Review Books, 2007©