We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and t…

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We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787, p.385, Cosimo, Inc.
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