I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. ✨ Thomas Paine, Thom…

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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. ✨ Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). Paine and Jefferson on Liberty, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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