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4th of july Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I set out on this ground which I suppose to…” quote by Thomas Jefferson
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“I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.”

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