If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every Amer…

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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.117
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.117

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