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> [ “Deeply reluctant to judge a Founder as wanting in moral force, modern commentators retreat to a range of adjectives such as ‘flawed,’ ‘human,’ ‘contradictory,’ ‘paradoxical,’ ‘compartmentalized,’ while preserving for \[Thomas\] Jefferson what \[one\] historian...calls ‘a fundamental core of naïve innocence.’\*… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wiencek/deeply-reluctant-to-judge-a-founder-as-wanting-in-moral-force-modern/)

Henry Wiencek

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## More by Henry Wiencek

> [“Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point the search…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wiencek/genealogy-becomes-a-mania-an-obsessive-struggle-to-penetrate-the-past/)

Henry Wiencek

> [“Deeply reluctant to judge a Founder as wanting in moral force, modern commentators retreat to a range of adjectives such as ‘flawed,’ ‘human,’ ‘contradictory,’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wiencek/deeply-reluctant-to-judge-a-founder-as-wanting-in-moral-force-modern/)

Henry Wiencek

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