"Adam Smith believed that all governments in the world could be reduced to just two-monarchies and republics-and that these were rooted in two basic types of personalities: monarchists, who loved peace and order, and republicans, who loved liberty and independence."* Jefferson thought "the sickly, weakly, timid man, fears the people and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold, cherishes them, is formed a Whig by nature."**
* Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
** The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (New York, 1898)
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