Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.
ATTRIBUTION:
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. “A Summary View of the Rights of British America...” (1774). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, p. 134, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).
