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Thomas Jefferson - A Character Sketch
Neither Orator nor Good Talker
by Ellis, Edward S. (A.M.)
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Jefferson was neither an orator nor a good talker. He could not make a
speech. His voice would sink downwards instead of rising upwards out of his
throat.
But as regards legal learning he was in the front rank. No one was more
ready than he in ably written opinions and defenses.
It was in what John Adams termed "the divine science of politics" that
Jefferson won his immortal and resplendent fame.
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