1To Thomas Jefferson from Irenée Amelot De Lacroix, 29 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Le rang éminent ou Vous ont élévés vos Vertus, La Carriere politique que vous suivez avec tant de Lumiere, le rôle Constant & important que vous avez soutenû dans votre pays pendant La révolution, qui en á affermi La Liberté sur des Bases inébranlables en amerique, donneront peut être á vos yeux quelque prix á des notes réceuillies soigneusement depuis Vingt ans, et pendant Les Troubles...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Irenée Amelot De Lacroix, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
If the services of a soldier bred in the camp, and educated in a military school, and who was advanced to various grades on the field of battle stained with his blood, can be of any use to that country, whose prosperity you have so eminently advanced; would you permit him to tender his feeble efforts, & the zeal which animates him to repress the audacity of the British, whom a fatal destiny...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Irenée Amelot De Lacroix, 12 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In a government, as popular as that of the United States, it is of high importance, that every class of citizens should be honestly informed of those things, which involve their dearest interest. The diffusion of knowledge facilitates the arduous task of rulers, who depend so essentially on the spirit of the governed, to bring about those measures, which tend to the preservation of their...