Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road i…

Thomas Jefferson
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. ✨ Letter to Nathaniel Macon, 1821.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. ✨ Letter to Nathaniel Macon, 1821.

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