Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Jefferson” in chapter 5 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8:
... lives and properties, and maintain their just rights and privileges, even at the extremest hazards.
Rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British parliament, wrote Jefferson from Monticello, I would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.
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