[Willie Green]

Yes, Jefferson was naively optimistic back in 1785 when he wrote to Van Hogendorp.
And he retained that naïveté in his 1790 letter to Randolph.
But that was well before his presidency.
His perspective changed with the wisdom of experience.

"The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves without regard to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency."

--Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Say, 1815.

Dubya was a history major, wasn't he???
What were his grades again???
Oh, that's OK. Nevermind....
It's painfully obvious he didn't learn much from Jefferson anyway.

[Once-Ler]

Dubya was a history major, wasn't he???

Yes. He is also the President of the United States and you are a poster on Freerepublic. When you recieve the American Legislative Exchange Council's Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award then people will take you seriously too.