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Letter to Jean Nicholas Démeunier (22 Jun 1786) - Jefferson, Thomas | WIST Quotations
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro' his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage,…