Rational Nation USA

"A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society." — Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th-century U.S. president (letter to George Hammond, 1792) "It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately." — Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th-century U.S. president (letter to George Logan, 1816) “But it was impossible to save the Great Republic. She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest had long ago done its work; trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home; multitudes who had applauded the crushing of other people’s liberties, lived to suffer for their mistake in their own persons. The government was irrevocably in the hands of the prodigiously rich and their hangers-on...