Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. …

Thomas Jefferson
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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.
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