| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 30861 |
| QUOTATION: | We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty, in a feather-bed. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, April 2, 1790, to Lafayette. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 16, p. 293, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950). Concerns the progress of the French Revolution. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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