I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office…

Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph, p.345
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