The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. ✨ Thoma…

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The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, p.265, Princeton University Press
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