Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
TJ
Thomas JeffersonLetter to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1816)
About Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. President. (1743-1826)
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