托马斯·杰斐逊被称为美国的民族之魂,他前后有60年的时间都在为美国的政治奔忙。他曾在上帝的祭坛上发过誓言:“永远反对一切对人类心灵暴虐统治的专制形式。”这句话概括了他曾经用毕生精力为之奋斗的信仰与精神。后来,这句话被镌刻在了美国首都华盛顿的杰斐逊纪念碑上,成了 Thomas Jefferson, known as the national soul of the United States, has spent 60 years in front of and behind the politics of the United States. He had vowed on the altar of God that “he will always oppose all the tyranny of tyranny over humanity.” This sentence summarizes the beliefs and spirits that he had worked for with his lifelong energy. Later on, the sentence was engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC