A Letter From Thomas Jefferson

To the Stewards of the American Republic,

I write not as a man of this century, but as one who knew how fragile republics are when ambition outruns principle.

The liberty we declared was not secured by force alone, but by restraint and by the understanding that no nation, however powerful, may rightly substitute its will for the consent of others. Sovereignty is not a convenience to be discarded when it obstructs desire; it is the very foundation of lawful order among nations.

When a people begin to speak of acquisition as necessity, of dominance as destiny, and of alliances as burdens, they announce not their strength but their moral exhaustion. Empires are born when republics forget themselves.

The world after the great wars of your modern age sought something nobler than conquest: cooperation over coercion, law over impulse, and mutual defense over unilateral ambition. To weaken these bonds is to invite the very calamities they were designed to prevent. Power must be bound by conscience, or it will bind the people instead.

If America is to endure, let her remember this:

She was admired not because she could impose her will, but because she once chose not to.

Thomas Jefferson

(Imagine he were alive)

Thanks for reading. Abrazos.

Diego Rojas