It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A…

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.
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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

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