"To constrain the brute force of the people,……" — Thomas Jefferson

To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem… - Thomas Jefferson
"To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life."

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