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Quote from Thomas Jefferson,


"Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ...
this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up,
and bear it through to it's consummation.
It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man."


By:

Thomas Jefferson (more quotes by Thomas Jefferson or books by/about Thomas Jefferson)


(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Source:

letter to Edward Coles, August 25, 1814

Categories:

Freedom, Liberty, Responsibility, Service, Slavery, President

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