Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to…

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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.
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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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