I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the …

Thomas Jefferson
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I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations. ✨ Letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789.
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