The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
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