Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal…

Thomas Jefferson
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Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). The Real Thomas Jefferson, Natl Center for Constitutional
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