The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of…

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The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1977). The Portable Thomas Jefferson, p.431, Penguin
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The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1977). The Portable Thomas Jefferson, p.431, Penguin

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