Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those gener…

Thomas Jefferson
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Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1861). Correspondence, p.152
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