It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be tak…

Thomas Jefferson
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It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.412
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