Delay is preferable to error. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (20…

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Delay is preferable to error. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private, p.357, Cambridge University Press
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From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1977). The Portable Thomas Jefferson, p.42, Penguin
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Delay is preferable to error. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private, p.357, Cambridge University Press

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