A free government is of all others the most energetic. ✨ Thomas Jeffer…

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A free government is of all others the most energetic. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield
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