Quote #121
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Waterhouse, (June 26, 1822). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12, pp. 241-243.
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