This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that the…

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This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.
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This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

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