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Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). The Real Thomas Jefferson, Natl Center for Constitutional
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.264
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Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). The Real Thomas Jefferson, Natl Center for Constitutional

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