[pointing to the Jefferson Memorial] But, this fellow back here, Thomas Jefferson, once said something that I think of often: he said, "I like the dreams of the future better than the histories of the past."
The actual Jefferson quote, from a letter to John Adams dated 1 August 1816, reads:
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.3
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