Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all manki…

Thomas Jefferson
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Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.
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