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Quote from Thomas Jefferson,


"Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue, and
prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."


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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:

Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX, 1787

Categories:

Dependence, Despotism, Subservience, Tyranny, Virtue

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