Meanwhile, urges toward liberty, fraternity, and equality were only growing in France, and it didn’t seem very equitable to grant citizenship based solely on race.
Philosophers and theologians would readily admit that the erotic ascension from earthly pleasures and utilitarian friendships to the towering heights of Caritas is next to impossible in practice.
I believe in the all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name; and that individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with his will.
His friends deserted to the Government, and he was left to uphold the doctrines of liberty, fraternity, and revolution in that perpetual minority which requires so much self-approval to support it.
He became a dictator and declared himself emperor in 1804. It would take many, many more years of war and political struggle before the republic's ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity were realized.
So I think it's wrong to lump Jefferson in to the fraternity, egalitarian notion of the French, which is far more similar to, to what ultimately became socialism and Marxism and kind of that tradition.