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...hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter," privately urged state officials to press seditious libel charges against editors unfriendly to his presidency. The advocate of a limited Federal Government and opponent of a permanent standing military doubled the size of the country in one stroke by making the Louisiana Purchase and went to war against Muslim pirates with a brand-new fighting force: the U.S. Marines. "He had outsized talents of statesmanship and outsized talents for self-indulgence," says Roger Wilkins, author of Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. "I don't begrudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Philosopher-President: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...from and even actively oppose its leaders' decisions, he strongly aligned himself against the Alien and Sedition Acts, which had been signed by his predecessor Adams. (To the extent that certain elements of the current Patriot Act smack of oppression, Jefferson might find it alarming too.) And following the Louisiana Purchase--whose constitutionality he questioned but whose practical benefits he found irresistible--he boldly claimed the nation's far-reaching wilderness by sending Lewis and Clark on their unprecedented expedition, the purpose of which was not only to seek knowledge but also to assert political dominion. To Jefferson, the advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Philosopher-President: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

Jefferson, a lifelong Francophile, desperately wanted to like Napoleon. Three years before he would double the size of the U.S. by purchasing the Louisiana Territory from the French ruler, Jefferson was struggling from afar to understand Napoleon's increasingly power-hungry motives. At first, Jefferson held out hope that France was in the hands of an enlightened statesman. By April 1800, when he addressed Everard Meade, a Virginia state legislator, Jefferson was growing disillusioned. He was worried that the French example of a republic lost to a despot would shake faith in the U.S.'s fledgling government. But thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: A Life In Letters | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

Taken together with some of Jefferson's other ambitious and quasi-constitutional moves--the Louisiana Purchase and the sending of the Lewis and Clark expedition to the West--the Barbary war exposed him to some Federalist and newspaper criticism for his secrecy, high-handedness and overly "presidential" style. But there was no arguing with success, and some historians believe that just as Jefferson was able to make use of Adams' Navy, so Madison, when he became President, was able to deploy Decatur's Navy, battle hardened and skillful, in the sterner combat of the War of 1812. Those who like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Pirate War: To The Shores Of Tripoli | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...benefited greatly from the colonial strife next door. Broke after its Haitian defeat--"Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!" Napoleon exclaimed--France sold a large region, 828,000 square miles, from the western banks of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, to the U.S. for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. at a cost of about 4¢ an acre. Alexander Hamilton said Napoleon would not have sold his claims except for the "courage and obstinate resistance [of the] black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Private War: Ignoring the Revolution Next Door | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

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