Thomas Jefferson

>>909707
Nobody's perfect.

TJ was a coward who couldn't fathom responsibility or destiny as a nation; he was a smallminded politician in ways that Hamilton, Washington, and Madison clearly were not. Easily in the lowest quartile of founding fathers.

>wanted to keep the country small
>proceeds with the Louisiana Purchase

If we're talking about presidents who said one thing and did the other, for the good or not, TJ has to be one of the worst

>>911670
TJ didn't necessarily want the nation to be small; he bought Louisiana so that there would be land for small farmers to own as the east coast became suffocated

>>911655
+1

>>911696
and really that's one of the main faults of his thinking, if the US was going to remain a nation of rural farmers it would've needed to continuously expand in order to keep the population density down and to stop farmers from competing unnecessarily, which is ultimately unfeasible.

>>909707
Jefferson BTFO

Federalism wins the long game!

>tfw when you realalize Thomas Jefferson was a maoist

James Watt didn't invent the steam engine, he was a businessman who improved an existing steam engine.

The steam engine was invented by Denis Papin.

>>911643
That's the point.