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> [Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/our-country-is-too-large-to-have-all-its-affairs-directed-by-a-single/)

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