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“The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson
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Context

Letter to M. L'Hommande, (1787), as quoted in The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (1900), edited by John P. Foley, p. 500

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Jefferson, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

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