QuoteQuest“[I]f the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour?”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
1782, reported in Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux, Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III (1845), Vol. II, p. 62.
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Jefferson, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
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