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Some Are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness, And Some Hire Public Relations Officers.

The Most Important Lesson Of American History Is The Promise Of The Unexpected. None Of Our Ancestors Would Have Imagined Settling Way Over Here On This Unknown Continent. So We Must Continue To Have Society That Is Hospitable To The Unexpected, Which Allows Possibilities To Develop Beyond Our Own Imaginings.

Jeffersonian Isolationism Expressed An Essentially Cosmopolitan Spirit. The Jeffersonian Was Determined - Even At The Expense Of Separating Himself From The Rest Of The Globe, And Even Though He Be Charged With Provincial Selfishness - To Preserve America As An Uncontaminated Laboratory.

[the Library Of Congress] Is A Multimedia Encyclopedia. These Are The Tentacles Of A Nation.

A Sign Of Celebrity Is That His Name Is Often Worth More Than His Services.