Editing out the anti-Catholic parts of the founders writings in a present day speech is not a big problem. Certainly we do not quote Jefferson on race? Also, as he was often a horrible Jacobin conservatives ought not glorify the man too much. In him are the seeds of much that we despise in modern liberalism. It is not too much to say that Jefferson was the first of the prominent American “limousine liberals” (coach and four liberals?).